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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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We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves? – Morris Adler

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The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. – Marya Mannes

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The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. – Jack Kerouac

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