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“Solitude makes a writer weave magic with his magic.”

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“He'd often come here to think. Occasionally he even used the toilet for its intended purpose, but mostly he came here to get away.”

Solitude Refuge Avoidance Seeking Solace

Book:The Merchant of Death

Source: The Merchant of Death

“Leela's happiest childhood memories were of aloneness: reading in her room with the door closed, playing chess on the computer, embarking on long bike rides through the city, going to the movies by herself. You saw more that way, she explained to her parents. You didn't miss crucial bits of dialogue because your companion was busy making inane remarks. Her parents, themselves solitary individuals, didn't object. People– except for a selected handful– were noisy and messy. They knew that.”

Book:The Unknown Errors of Our Lives

Source: The Unknown Errors of Our Lives

“Solitude torments me; company oppresses me. The presence of another person distracts me from my thoughts; I dream their presence in a peculiarly abstracted way.”

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.”

Social Moral Solitude Philosophical Excellence Artistic Scientific

Author:William Deresiewicz

“Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical , than that of a bark floating isolated on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity and under the eye of Heaven? Now this solitude was peopled with this thoughts, the night lighted by his illusions, and the silence animated by his anticipations.”

Author:Alexandre Dumas

“We habitually compare ourselves to others to a debilitating degree, believing our successes can only be captured by how much we've outpaced someone else. We deal in acceptable ideas. We disregard our own capabilities. We waste a lot of time and emotion on what everyone else is doing well or badly, when we should be investing in and celebrating ourselves. And sometimes we simply forget that we like our own company, or that we love things for our own, deeply personal, individualistic reasons. In short, we forget ourselves, and how to be alone.”

Book:Baseball Life Advice

Source: Baseball Life Advice

“Events like this don't give me the sense of oneness others seem to enjoy; it's always been private occasions that make me feel connected to the joys and sorrows of the world, often in the form of communion with writers and musicians I'll never meet in person. Proust called these moments of unity between writer and reader 'that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”

Solitude Introversion

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“The soul that knows suffering, understand the grace of solitude.”

Soul Christian Suffering Grace Self Help Solitude Inner Strength Overcomer

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“...but now, driving past the billboard I realized that losing everything is death. A death that I crave and I don't want anyone to save me”

Creativity Solitude Spinster

Author:Kate Bolick

“As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded, doesn't quite approve when the invader just gets up and leaves, one-two-three, like that.”

Solitude Privacy Introvert Salinger Zooey

Book:franny and zooey

Source: franny and zooey