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“Solitude causes more wounds than it was ever meant to heal.”

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“Sade never got into the habit of concerning himself with what other people were thinking and feeling. As with Genet, the soil in which perversion grew was habitual solitude and constant frustration of the need to feel loved.”

Feelings Solitude De Sade Genet

Book:De Sade: A Critical Biography

Source: De Sade: A Critical Biography

“Imagine being given the opportunity to take time out of your life, for five whole years. Free of social obligations, free of work commitments. Think how well you would get to know yourself, all that time to consider your past and the choices you had made, to focus on your personal development, to know yourself through and through, to work out your goals in life, your true ambitions. None of this happened, not to me. Perhaps for someone else it would have been different. Any insight I have gained has been the result of later reflection. Solitude did not breed introspection, quite the reverse. My days were spent outside, immersed in nature, watching.”

Solitude Self Knowledge Introspection Solitude As A Choice Self Isolation

Book:Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills

Source: Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills

“I’m paving my own road, confronting (or at least trying to confront), the storm the only way I know how: from a quiet place of solitude and reflection where all my demons can be heard the loudest. I don’t do this because I like their song. I do this because I want them dead.”

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Book:Elsewhere and Otherwise: Essays

Source: Elsewhere and Otherwise: Essays

“Other people just possess you, she'd told her friend, the butcher. Is that so bad ? he'd asked. To be possessed ? It's the worst fate of all, she'd say. The donkey skin, she thought, was everything else in the world; it was solitude : anonymous, bloody, and happy ever after.”

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Book:And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

Source: And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges

“Being alone is great for all the small stuff. Seeing whatever you want at the movies. Eating in that weird way you can only eat by yourself. Going on vacation wherever you like. Being alone is ideal for eavesdropping, for really relaxing, and at times for forcing me to be sociable.”

Book:Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

Source: Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else

“There is exposure in living one’s life alone.”

Book:Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

Source: Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

“Alone, but safe and sound.”

Solitude Safety Social Distancing

Book:In Limbo

Source: In Limbo

“The work to be done will be that of a true author, a true artist. It will be done alone.”

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Book:In Limbo

Source: In Limbo

“All islands need some sort of connection, even the great ones.”

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Book:In Limbo

Source: In Limbo

“If two types of attachments are pulling you in two opposite direction and you're not able to decide which way to go, take a break from both attachments. Conflict will automatically resolve. A few months of solitude can save you from lifetime of complications.”

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