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“In truth, the man who would behold aright the glory of God upon earth must in solitude behold that glory.”

Book:The Island of the Fay - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story

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The Island of the Fay - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story

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Edgar Allan Poe

American author, poet, editor, and literary critic. Known for his short stories and poetry, particularly his works of horror and mystery. His most famous works include 'The Black Cat', 'The Raven', and 'Annabel Lee'. more

“I could not now say when I first grew to love the wild, only that I did, and that a need for it will always remain strong in me. As a child, whenever I read the word, it conjured images of wide spaces, remote and figureless. Isolated islands off Atlantic coasts. Unbounded forests, and blue snow-light falling on to drifts marked with the paw-prints of wolves. Frost-shattered summits and corries holding lochs of great depth. And this was the vision of a wild place that had stayed with me: somewhere boreal, wintry, vast, isolated, elemental, demanding of the traveller in its asperities. To reach a wild place was, for me, to step outside human history.”

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Book:The Wild Places

Source: The Wild Places

“You know what the problem with the real world is? It's lonely. Because everyone goes online the second they get the chance! The real world is awesome if you want to be by yourself, though. Maybe that's your thing now.”

Solitude Real World

Book:Version Control

Source: Version Control

“Ouais, les gens nous laissent tomber, Bri. Mais ça veut pas dire qu'on est seuls.”

Solitude Quote Citation Français Angie Thomas On The Come Up Bri Parée Pour Percer Laisse Tomber

Book:On the Come Up

Source: On the Come Up

“I have one and only one wish: to withdraw from the world, to live far away in the countryside in a beautiful house, and to study and work there, all alone. I hope to realize that dream next yeat, when I will be thirty years old and will say goodbye to the world forever.”

Solitude

Book:The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

Source: The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

“I see you want us all to go. I don't know what you want to do." "I want to be alone," said Isabel.”

Solitude Dialogue Alone Henry James The Portrait Of A Lady

Book:The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“I like to sit at home in mild terror as the world rages outside without me, hoping that no one is going to drop by and expect me to come up with a humorous anecdote or ask me to have an opinion on something.”

Solitude

Book:We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

Source: We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

“Swarms of bees, beetles, soft music of the world, a gentle humming; brent geese, barnacle geese, shortly before All Hallows, music of the dark wild torrent. (Medieval poem by a monk of Ynys Enlli, an island off the coast of Wales)”

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Book:The Wild Places

Source: The Wild Places

“Wouldn't you like to have comrades?' But she would not like that. She wanted only to rest and to read her old, rain-swollen books, turning the pages carefully, so carefully.”

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Book:Deathless

Source: Deathless

“Some see solitude as loneliness. Others see it as a foetal state from which to blunder out into the world. I see it as a breathing space for contemplation and, indeed, breeding space for ideas.”

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Author:Stewart Stafford

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