What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspe

What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it — like a secret vice. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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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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To fly from, need not be to hate, makind:
All are not fit with them to stir and toil,
Nor is it discontent to keep the mind
Deep in its fountain. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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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 know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. – Aneurin Bevan

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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age. – James Buchan

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We teach people that they upset themselves. We cant change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today. – Albert Ellis

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