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The right to be alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the

The right to be alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man. – Louis D. Brandeis

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There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you…. In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. – Ruth Stout

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Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude. – Paul Tillich

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But on the first day came veiled spirits from all hours into his soul… a soft intoxication, which the atmosphere of nature, like that of a wine-store, communicated to him, spread itself, like an enchanted solitude around his soul. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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The reason old souls enjoy spending time alone is because they never really are. – Author Unknown

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A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned. – Xun Zi

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