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“Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.”

Doe States Secret Solitude Profound Unhappy Obscure Royalty Singularity

Book:The selected writings of Jean Genet

Source: The selected writings of Jean Genet

“I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.”

Way Needs Kind Two Together Secret Solitude Conflict Painful Obsession Two Things Secret Places

Author:Morris Graves

“In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.”

Men Play Secret Solitude Draws Ice Secret Life

Book:Between Man and Man

Source: Between Man and Man

“The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible. Logical and linguistic analysis demonstrate that the old metaphysical problems are illusory problems; the quest for the "meaning" of things can be reformulated as the quest for the meaning of words, and the established universe of discourse and behavior can provide perfectly adequate criteria for the answer.”

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces . . .”

Looks May Faces Lying Secret Solitude Summer Stealing Midst Delicate Finest Lace Vacant

Book:Life in the Iron-mills: Easyread Edition

Source: Life in the Iron-mills: Easyread Edition