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“No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.”

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William Deresiewicz, born in 1964, is a renowned American author. His works span across various fields including literary criticism, social commentary, and philosophical thought, known for their profound insights and unique style. more

“Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical , than that of a bark floating isolated on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity and under the eye of Heaven? Now this solitude was peopled with this thoughts, the night lighted by his illusions, and the silence animated by his anticipations.”

Life Solitude

Author:Alexandre Dumas

“We habitually compare ourselves to others to a debilitating degree, believing our successes can only be captured by how much we've outpaced someone else. We deal in acceptable ideas. We disregard our own capabilities. We waste a lot of time and emotion on what everyone else is doing well or badly, when we should be investing in and celebrating ourselves. And sometimes we simply forget that we like our own company, or that we love things for our own, deeply personal, individualistic reasons. In short, we forget ourselves, and how to be alone.”

Solitude

Book:Baseball Life Advice

Source: Baseball Life Advice

“Events like this don't give me the sense of oneness others seem to enjoy; it's always been private occasions that make me feel connected to the joys and sorrows of the world, often in the form of communion with writers and musicians I'll never meet in person. Proust called these moments of unity between writer and reader 'that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”

Solitude Introversion

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“The soul that knows suffering, understand the grace of solitude.”

Soul Christian Suffering Grace Self Help Solitude Inner Strength Overcomer

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“...but now, driving past the billboard I realized that losing everything is death. A death that I crave and I don't want anyone to save me”

Creativity Solitude Spinster

Author:Kate Bolick

“As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded, doesn't quite approve when the invader just gets up and leaves, one-two-three, like that.”

Solitude Privacy Introvert Salinger Zooey

Book:franny and zooey

Source: franny and zooey

“I like the sound of rain more than my voice. - Windows”

Solitude Rain

Book:Poems of Nazım Hikmet

Source: Poems of Nazım Hikmet

“Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone her pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude.”

Solitude Solo Solo Travel Solitude As A Choice Solo Traveler Solo Journeys

Book:The House In Paris

Source: The House In Paris

“The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there the shadow they have cast.”

Solitude Cioran All Gall Is Divided

Author:Emil M. Cioran

“I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.”

Nature Secret Solitude Hills Secrets Introvert Mountains Meadows Mountain Climbing Keeping Secrets Meadow Finding Inspiration Hilltop Mountainside Quiet Walks Silent Walks

Author:Joyce Rachelle

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