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Letter "I" » isolation
«One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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aberration, aberrations, aversion, aversions, countenance, cruelly, excommunicate, excommunicated, excommunicating, faintly, for the most part, Human communication, inevitably, intercourse, in so far, isolation, partly, proclaimed, shut off, sign off, thoughtless, unwittingly
«The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.»
«Solitude vivifies; isolation kills»
«The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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alleviated, alleviates, appreciation, customary, decline, evidently, faculties, irritability, isolation, rarest, tact, The Decline, thoughtfulness
«National isolation breeds national neurosis.»
«The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.»
«Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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cry for, isolation, merciful, modulate, modulating
«There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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abandonment, battlefields, Braves, flourish, inch, invasion, In the Shadows, isolation, obstinate, renown, rewards, saluted, salutes, The Shadows, triumphs, trumpets, turpitude
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