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“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”

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John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck was an American author renowned for his profound depiction of American society and the lives of farmers. His works often explore themes of poverty, social injustice, and human nature. Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962 for his significant contribution to American literature. more

“While solitude and study are necessary ingredients to understand our place in the world and to achieve an amplified sense of clarity and balance, immersion in natural world and sharing in human interaction is the ultimate source of inspiration and learning. Only by observing, understanding, and respecting nature and by unconditionally embracing, accepting, and loving other people of all stripes, can we experience the full gamut of emotions that makes us human.”

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Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“The solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad: the mind stagnates for want of employment, grows morbid, and is extinguished like a candle in foul air.”

Solitude Insanity

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Aunque hubiera sabido que, al abrir la puerta de golpe, explotarían simultáneamente mi cerebro, mi corazón y mi sexo, aún así habría entrado. Y aquí estoy, desde hace diecisiete años, paralizado ante el umbral, desesperado, con los puños apretados, rogando y amenazando, golpeando la puerta rojiza con los hombros, con la palma de las manos y con la frente, arrodillándome ante ella y arrastrándome encogido, bañado en lágrimas, por el linóleo helado del pasillo. Aquella primera noche en que exploré las profundidades de mi mente me desgajé, con un esfuerzo de voluntad que solo se puede hacer una vez en la vida, de esa puerta mágica... para seguir bajando, pero he vuelto allí, noche tras noche, tras incontables vagabundeos.”

Solitude Self Knowledge Misanthropy

Book:Travesti

Source: Travesti

“And yet even while I was exulting in my solitude I became aware of a strange lack. I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”