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• I prefer to be left alone with my books.

  Alison Weir

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• My favorite books are actually very complicated – ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, ‘Ulysses’.

  James Patterson

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• A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

  Ted Dekker

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• A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

  Don DeLillo

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• Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.

  Paulo Coelho

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• Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

  Socrates

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• Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

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• There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness.

  Maggie Smith

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• Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

  Thomas Merton

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• All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don’t interest me.

  Francoise Sagan

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• In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.

  Jonathan Sacks

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• A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

  Oscar Wilde

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• But I think there’s something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I’m very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.

  Andy Serkis

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• I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

  Henry David Thoreau

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• I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

  Paul Theroux

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• Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

  Kevin Patterson

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• Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

  William Jay

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• One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

  Stendhal

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• Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

  Thomas De Quincey

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• Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

  Frank Muir

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  Tags in Superiority, Solitude, Gentle