I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Henry David Thoreau

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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Albert Einstein

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He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

Patrick Süskind

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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Wayne W. Dyer

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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

Thomas Mann

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For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.

Virginia Woolf

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A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

Axel Munthe

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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom

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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.

May Sarton

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