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Quote by Robert Cecil
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. -

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. – Robert Cecil

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Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf. – Robert Cecil

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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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I’m not anti-social. I’m pro-solitude. – Author Unknown

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In solitude, where we are least alone. – George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

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The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. Ones stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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