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«Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.»
Author: Alice Koller
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Solitude
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absence, achievement, aware, choice, doings, fullness, immerse, immersed, immersing, luxuriously, of your own, presence, solitary, solitude, well-being, well aware, won
«Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.»
«In solitude, where we are least alone.»
«Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is»
«Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
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anguish, anguished, anguishes, delivered, loneliness, solitude
«It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it»
«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.»
«As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Simplicity
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Laws, poverty, simpler, simplified, simplifies, simplify, simplifying, solitude, the universe, universe, weakness
«A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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author, Creation, importance, isolate, isolates, isolating, produced, solitude
«It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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after, crowd, crowding, crowd out, easy, independence, in the midst, keeps, man of the world, midst, opinions, perfect, perfecting, perfects, solitude, sweetness, The Crowd, The Great, To Live
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