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Solitude

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

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For solitude sometimes is best society,
And short retirement urges sweet return.

John Milton

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Man loves company — even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

Sherry Turkle

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When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death—ourselves.

Eda Leshan

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Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain are isolate; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

N. Scott Momaday

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