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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. – Paul Valery

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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. – Paul Valery

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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery

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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery

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I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. – Robert Cormier

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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. – Jean de la Bruyere

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Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. – Thomas Browne

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All we ask is to be let alone. – Jefferson Davis

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