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“Others may thrive in dialogue, I do not. My true place is a quiet room, where words can rest long enough to gather meaning.”

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Book:The Uncharted Mind

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“But all the same," insisted the Savage, "it is natural to believe in God when you're alone–quite alone, in the night, thinking about death …" "But people never are alone now," said Mustapha Mond. "We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible for them ever to have it.”

Technology Solitude Entertainment Distraction Distopian

Book:Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“Loneliness is a passive state. It is a compulsion when you are left on your own by others. Solitude, on the other hand, is a fully conscious choice that you make.”

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Author:Alok Mishra

“The pursuit of wisdom often leads down the path of solitude.”

Life Philosophy Wisdom Purpose Path Solitude Pursuit

Author:Alok Mishra

“Este momento minha mente está desprovida de poesia, ainda assim quero escrever nada além de um poema.”

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Author:Suman Pokhrel

“Although it is true that this counterthought attests to an absolute solitude, it is an extremely populous solitude, like the desert itself, a solitude already intertwined with a people to come, one that invokes and awaits that people, existing only through it, though it is not yet here.” — Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, translated by Brian Massumi, University of Minnesota Press, 1987, p. 377.”

Thinking Philosophy Wisdom Becoming Solitude Being The Philosopher

Book:Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Source: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?" "Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”

Death Living

Book:Survivor

Source: Survivor

“Many solitaries living in the desert have been lost because they lived like people in the world. It is better to live in a crowd and want to live a solitary life than to live in solitude and be longing all the time for company.”

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Book:The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection

Source: The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection

“I want to know you're there, but I want to be alone.”

Solitude Connection

Author:Virginia Woolf

“I do not know that I am happiest when alone; but this I am sure of, that I never am long in the society even of her I love (God knows too well, and the Devil probably too), without a yearning for the company of my lamp and my utterly confused and tumbled-over library.”

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Author:Lord Byron

“Sanki insanlar ile aramda iki durak arası bir boşluk vardı; inmem gereken duraktan hep iki durak önce indiğim için mi onların yanına varamıyordum yoksa onlar mı benimle aynı durakta ineceklerine beni inandırıp ben o durakta indiğim an cam kapının tekrar kapanmasını ve ben dışarıda bırakışlarını izliyorlardı bilmiyordum. İlgilenmiyordum.”

Solitude Yalnızlık

Book:Tünel

Source: Tünel

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