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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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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. – John Cheever

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

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One aged man — one man — cant fill a house. – Robert Frost

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At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with ones lost self. – Brendan Francis

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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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