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A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a rece

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbeys gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind. – John Cheever

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – John Cheever

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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. – Janet Fitch

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There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself. – Abraham Ibn Esra

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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. – Thomas Carlyle

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