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“Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.”

World Science Learning Solitude Mark Mathematics Math Mathematical Solitary Mathematician Bent Mathematics By Mathematicians

Author:Roger Ascham

“We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.”

People Cities Solitude Gray Solitary Outcast Cain

Book:Alms for Oblivion

Source: Alms for Oblivion

“Our Lord Jesus is ever giving, and does not for a solitary instant withdraw his hand. As long as there is a vessel of grace not yet full to the brim, the oil shall not be stayed. He is a sun ever-shining; he is manna always falling round the camp; he is a rock in the desert, ever sending out streams of life from his smitten side; the rain of his grace is always dropping; the river of his bounty is ever-flowing, and the well-spring of his love is constantly overflowing.”

Source: Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

“My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.”

Wells Life Is Adventure Phenomenon Solitary

Book:Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable.”

People Solitary

Book:Notes on Eire

Source: Notes on Eire

“The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it, dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it. Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it more powerful than their weapons. Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints”

Believe Book Age Powerful Generations Battle Weapons Prison Soldier Saint Cells Gentle Beloved Transformed Killers Solitary Burned Dictator Fragments Ruthless Banned Discredit Prison Cells

Book:Loving God

Source: Loving God

“Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over the sea: a house that is the spectre, the secret image of prison. The image of my nostalgia. Maybe I never desired, not even then, to escape from jail. Man is not meant to live freely in freedom, but to be free inside a prison.”

Men Hard Today House Secret Sea Rocks Built Prison Nostalgia Islands Jail Solitary Sheer Severe Live Free Spectre

Book:Woman Like Me

Source: Woman Like Me

“Composition has almost always been solitary.”

Solitary Composition

Author:Wendy Carlos

“You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.”

Ifs Enough Stories Forget Fool Seasons Tales Solitary Enough Time Forget You

Author:Kaye Gibbons

“Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.”

People Nature Influence Poet Workers Painter Solitary Collaborators

Author:Robert Wyatt

“For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.”

World Children Hands Imagination Materials Quiet Solitary Observant

Author:Beatrix Potter

“If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them will have been attained.”

Ifs Feels Writing Has Beens Stories Purpose Hours Fire Dying Reader Walking Succeed Sitting Uncomfortable Solitary Nightfall

Book:Collected Ghost Stories

Source: Collected Ghost Stories

“There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn — noble, chaste, fierce yet beneficent, altruistic though solitary, strangely beautiful — is the clearest exception of all.”

Facts Beautiful Noble Exception Fierce Solitary Projection Unicorn Chaste

Author:Odell Shepard

“I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish—I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it and—appraised it—and taxed it—and licensed it—and staled it!”

World Bigs Wish Emotion One Day Caught Just One Solitary

Book:The Indiscreet Letter: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: The Indiscreet Letter: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.”

Film Actors Directors Percent Advantage Responsible Painter Editors Solitary

Author:Sylvia Kristel

“When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses […]. ‘The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,’ he said.”

Said Stories Loses Grew Dancer Subtle Isolated Solitary Discourse

Author:Michel de Certeau

“There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.”

Has Beens Said Wish Subjects Poet Late Too Late Solitary Could Have Been Mileage

Author:Richard Thompson

“In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. To be marooned, to be shut up in a solitary cell, to inhabit a lighthouse, or to camp alone in a forest, these have always seemed to me afflictions too heavy to be borne, even in imagination. A state in which conversation exists not, is for me an air too empty of oxygen for my lungs to breathe it.”

“Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.”

Writing Character Universe Language Fun Process Party Fiction Creative Loneliness Lonely Finished Drawing Lists Occupation Guests Creative Process Solitary Writing Fiction Eavesdropping

Author:Hilma Wolitzer

“The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labor satisfies. We are lightened when our gifts rise from pools we cannot fathom. Then we know they are not a solitary egotism and they are inexhaustible.”

Ifs Knows Looks Faces Mystery Labor Passages Pool Solitary Egotism Fathom

Author:Lewis Hyde

“Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.”

Should Creativity Solitary

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.”

Knows Writing Character Would Be Groups Offers Occupation Imaginary Solitary Companionship

Author:Anne Tyler

“The power to share has already turned once-solitary activities into social occasions.”

Social Share Activity Occasions Solitary Connecting

Author:Melinda Blau

“Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.”

People Ideas Happens Together Process Creativity Collaboration Mentality Solitary Get Together

Author:David Brooks

“The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.”

Ifs Form Interest Greater Depends Authority Illusion Envy Solitary Glamour Glamorous Bureaucrats Envied Reassurance

Author:John Berger

“Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take care of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.”

Men Want Life Looks Kind Has Beens Helping Care Enjoy Water Known Lord Struggle Labor Take Care Solitary Indifferent Impart Patron Delayed Life Struggle Patronage

Author:Samuel Johnson

“A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy.”

Dream Causes Memories Situation Drama Solitude Sufficient Melancholy Solitary Pretext Decor Precedence Sad Memories

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!”

Love Lost Losing Warm Rings Solitary Gloom

Book:The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

“I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.”

Television Collaboration Solitary

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.”

Life Company Solitary Wretched

Book:Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse

Source: Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse

“Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.”

Theater Theatre Solitary

Author:Robert Brustein

“This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.”

Form Tree Aspect Destroyed Solitary Decay Magnificent Living Things

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

“Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut. A man who so badly wants to have a more human image that he's having surgery to remove the bolts from his neck.”

Men Want Humans Behinds Dog Wall Tennis Necks Remove Solitary Estates Surgery Robots Bolts Connecticut

Author:Tony Kornheiser

“And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered himself by thinking that such a thing could happen any day, and it kept him going. But if any of the people now around me came near I would need to run for it and hide in mortal terror. I had to be alone, entirely alone, if I wanted to live.”

People Ifs Thinking World Needs Humans Happens Running Wanted Human Beings Creation Ideals Terror Mortals Holocaust Solitary Prototype Robinson Crusoe

Book:The Pianist

Source: The Pianist

“The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does not suffer for company, not even of its own kind; The Third, that it aims its beak to the skies; The Fourth, that it does not have a definite color; The Fifth, that it sings very softly.”

Firsts Kind Doe Suffering Company Five Sky Conditions Color Quiet Highest Bird Thirds Aim Fourth Solitary Definite Fifth Beaks

Book:San Juan de la Cruz

Source: San Juan de la Cruz

“Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too.”

Dream Reading Stars Crowds Pursue Rising Slips Solitary Pale Vow Pathways Oaks Meadows Noisy Blooming Wedding Ceremony Wedding Speech Wedding Poetry

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.”

Book Helping Use United Opinion Failing Judging Sight Sentences All Time Appeals Conception Solitary Council Unstable Knowledge And Power

Book:Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes

Source: Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes

“The fruit of solitude is increased sensitivity and compassion for others. There comes a new freedom to be with people. There is new attentiveness to their needs, new responsiveness to their hurts. Thomas Merton observes, 'It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them.... Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.”

“We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.”

Perfection Myth Partnership Solitary

Author:Debora Spar

“There is a lesson that I learned at twelve - the world does not end at the edge of a quad. There are people outside. The world does not end on the Fourth Level. There are people elsewhere. It took me two years to learn to apply the lesson - that neither does the world end with the Ship. If you want to accept life, you have to accept the whole bloody universe. The universe is filled with people, and there is not a single solitary spear carrier among them.”

People Ifs World Want Years Doe Two Ends Whole Universe Levels Accepting Lessons Filled Edges Ships Two Years Twelve Elsewhere Fourth Solitary Bloody Spears Carrier Quads

Book:Rite of passage

Source: Rite of passage

“Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.”

Source: What to do when you're bored and blue

“I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his assassination by agents of his government or life in prison (in solitary confinement)-to awaken us to the danger of our loss of democracy to a total-surveilla nce state”

Country States Government Loss Democracy Risk Danger Serious Prison Chosen Agents Solitary Exile Assassination Confinement Snowden Solitary Confinement

Author:Daniel Ellsberg

“Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.”

Knows Ideas Causes Break Creativity Creative Movement Inspire Stones Senses Touched Feds Solitary Continents Break Through Creative Work

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.”

Left Sky Moon Solitary Midnight Left Out

Author:Izumi Shikibu

“Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point.”

Ifs Hands Clear Fishes Consideration Fishing Poetic Aesthetic Solitary Catching Contemplative Fly Fishing Misanthropic Catching Fish

Book:Dances With Trout

Source: Dances With Trout

“If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.”

Ifs Men Want Long Values Creatures Enlightenment Tasks Fellows Solitary

Author:Robertson Davies

“The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.”

Tears Rivers Cheeks Solitary Rise Above Suspended Taj Mahal Mahal

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.”

World Letters Prejudice Silent Privilege Favors Tyranny Kingdoms Glorious Solitary Cheat Plato Delightful Recommendations Short Lived

Author:Francis Quarles

“When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.”

People Feels Book Secret Growing Up Growing Mines Anxiety Lonely Worthy Cures Islands Sat Unhappiness Contemplating Solitary Adulthood Interiors Margins Outcast Feeling Lonely Passwords

Author:Jodie Foster

“Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities-His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed when embarrassed to articulate with difficulty-He wore the costume of our grandfathers. Was enormously rich but made no use of his wealth... He Cavendish lived latterly the life of a solitary, came to the Club dinner & to the Royal Society: but received nobody at his home. He was acute sagacious & profound & I think the most accomplished British Philosopher of his time.”

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