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For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.
Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.
To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.
If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.
The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.
Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.
I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.
There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.
In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.
Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.
Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse?
I love that I'm alone all the time. I love sleeping next to no one. I really don't like solitude.
If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.
If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.
Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.
It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
There is no man can take, there is no pool can slake, ultimately I am alone; ultimately I am done.
Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.
May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.
Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.
What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group.
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all.