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“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.”

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Author:Louis Aragon

“No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it.”

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Book:BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MISCELLANIES

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MISCELLANIES

“Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the Solitude of the Author’s Life, and lock themselves into cork-lined rooms or droop around in bars in order to whine better. But although most writing is done in solitude, I believe that it is done, like all the arts, for an audience. That is to say, with an audience. All the arts are performance arts, only some of them are sneakier about it than others.”

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Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.”

Enough House Rooms Solitude Islands

Book:The collected plays

Source: The collected plays

“The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.”

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Author:Vivian Gornick

“When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.”

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Author:Florence King

“Solitude stands by the window She turns her head as I walk in the room I can see by her eyes she's been waiting Standing in the slant of the late afternoon”

I Can Eye Turns Waiting Walks Rooms Solitude Late Standing Window Afternoon Her Eyes Late Afternoon

Author:Suzanne Vega

“In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the presence of others. On the spring side of twenty, if anything affects us, we rush to lock ourselves up in our room, or get away into the street or the fields; in our earlier years we are still the savages of nature, and we do as the poor brutes do. The wounded stag leaves the herd; and if there is anything on a dog's faithful heart, he slinks away into a corner.”

“I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.”

Rooms Darkness Pride Solitude Dependent Sunlight

Author:Charles Bukowski