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“An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.”

Long Doors Fine Solitude Towers Ivory Ivory Tower

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.”

People World Needs Feels Kind Whole Rooms Known Doors Solitude Whole World

Author:Louis Aragon

“Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered one of the two, books or men. I often hear men prizing their solitude but that is only because there are still men somewhere on earth even though in the far distance. I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books, with another human hand in my own. I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human being looking at me.”

Source: Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman

“Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.”

World Two Desire Results Doors Loneliness Solitude Variety Rejects

Book:Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel

Source: Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel