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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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Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing. – Paul Valery

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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. – Paul Valery

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I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control. – Vinny Guadagnino

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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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Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. – Mortimer Adler

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