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“I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy. I am free from the distractions constantly arising in civilized life from social claims. Nature offers unceasingly the most novel and fascinating objects for learning. The only drawbacks to this solitude are the want of information on the progress of scientific discovery in Europe and the lack of all the advantages arising from an interchange of ideas.”

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Alexander Humboldt

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“Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had made a selection in her memory and had burned the dimming piles of nostalgic waste that life had accumulated in her heart, and had purified, magnified, and eternalized the others, the most bitter ones.”

Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Author:Gabriel Garcia Márquez

“For here, inside the crypt, was where he truly lived. Which is to say, for well over twenty hours a day in total darkness and in total silence and in total immobility, he sat on his horse blanket at the end of the stony corridor, his back resting on the rock slide, his shoulders wedged between the rocks and enjoyed himself.”

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Book:Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write”

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Book:From Inspiration to Publication: How to Succeed As a Children's Writer Advice from 15 Award Winning Writers

Source: From Inspiration to Publication: How to Succeed As a Children's Writer Advice from 15 Award Winning Writers

“…she had no resources for solitude…”

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Book:Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“My name it means nothing my fortune is less My future is shrouded in dark wilderness Sunshine is far away, clouds linger on Everything I posessed - Now they are gone Oh where can I go to and what can I do? Nothing can please me only thoughts are of you You just laughed when I begged you to stay I've not stopped crying since you went away The world is a lonely place when you're on your own Guess I will go home - sit down and moan. Crying and thinking is all that I do Memories I have remind me of you”

Solitude

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Source: Black Sabbath: Master of Reality | Guitar Recorded Tablature Sheet Music Songbook | Rock Electric Guitar Music Book for Intermediate Players | Hard Rock Songbook with Standard Notation and Tabs

“These words filled me with a sort of melancholy and I was at a loss for an answer, for I felt when I was with him, when I was talking to him - and no doubt it would have been the same with anyone else - none of that happiness which it was possible for me to experience when I was by myself. Alone, at times, I felt surging from the depths of my being one or other ot those impressions which gave me a delicious sense of well-being. But as soon as I was with someone else, as soon as I was talking to a friend, my mind as it were faced about, it was towards this interlocutor and not towards myself that it directed its thoughts, and when they followed this outward course they brought me no pleasure.”

Solitude Solitude As A Choice

Author:Marcel Proust

“Retire within yourselves; but first prepare yourselves to receive yourselves there. It would be madness to trust yourselves to yourselves if you do not know how to control yourselves. There are ways of failing in solitude as well as in company.”

Solitude

Author:Montaigne

“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”

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Book:Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Much better stay in company! To love you must have someone else, Giving requires a legatee, Good neighbours need whole parishfuls Of folk to do it on - in short, Our virtues are all social; if, Deprived of solitude, you chafe, It's clear you're not the virtuous sort.”

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