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“We often do or speak, not because of necessity, but because of insecurity.”

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“Şatoya, ne bir insan geliyor, ne de bir insan buradan gidiyordu. Pencereleri yalnızlığa açılıyordu.”

Book:A Wizard of Earthsea

Source: A Wizard of Earthsea

“Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude).”

Book:Psikopolitika: Neoliberalizm ve Yeni İktidar Teknikleri

Source: Psikopolitika: Neoliberalizm ve Yeni İktidar Teknikleri

“You are all alone,” says the other little girl. I think she has the prettiest brownish red hair. “I guess I am,” I say. They both turn towards each other with a look of astonishment on their faces and then stare at me again. “You are never alone,” they say in unison.”

Solitude Companionship Not Alone

Book:The Birth

Source: The Birth

“(…) what happened (to Kafka) is the same as what happened to me: he withdrew he went too far into solitude and knew — he must’ve known — you never come back from there”

Book:Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

Source: Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

“...because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”

Solitude One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Book:One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Only the strong can live alone, the strong and the selfish.”

Solitude Selfishness

Book:More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns

Source: More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns

“the first lesson reading teaches us is how to be alone.”

Solitude Literacy

Book:How to Be Alone

Source: How to Be Alone

“Frantic smiles at parties, overtures that have desperation behind them, miasmic reaches of talk with the lost bore, short cuts to approach through staring, squeezing or kissing all indicate that one cannot live alone. Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.”

Book:The Death Of The Heart

Source: The Death Of The Heart

“I’ve always been somewhat isolated. I’ve borne my isolation with me through the crowd as the snail bears its house. For some people isolation isn’t a circumstance in which they find themselves, it’s an innate characteristic. And through this act my isolation is likely to increase; no matter how it ends, whether badly or well, for me the “punishment” will be solitary confinement for life.”

Solitude Isolation

Book:Doctor Glas

Source: Doctor Glas

“A life spent at one's desk is a life alone.”

Writing Solitude Working Authoring

Author:Donna Tartt