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Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but

Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. – Joseph Conrad

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It is when we try to grapple with another mans intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. – Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad
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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. – Joseph Conrad

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Despair
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There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope. – Joseph Conrad

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Were born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that were not alone. – Orson Welles

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The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone – and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone – at night. Thats the nucleus of the first story in my collection and its also where the title came from for the book. – Paul Kane

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Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey… Doesnt try it on. – Billy Connolly

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alone

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown. – Vaslav Nijinsky

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