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Letter "L" » loneliness
«Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Love
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«Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate»
Author: Germaine Greer
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Loneliness
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ceased, communicate, cruel, loneliness, propinquity
«Loneliness breaks the spirit.»
Author: Jewish Proverb
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loneliness
«Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.»
«My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication--it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness--it is all that I have--and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.»
Author: Franz Kafka
(Writer)
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«Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.»
Author: Henry Rollins
(Actor, Author, Poet, Singer)
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Loneliness
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adds, air, burn, loneliness, puts, smell, special, sunsets
«Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Life
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all over, full, full of life, loneliness, misery, soon, suffering, too soon
«Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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dependence, diversion, diversions, emptiness, helplessness, inadequacies, inadequacy, intolerable, loneliness, nullity, occupation, passions
«Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.»
«Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
| About:
Loneliness
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loneliness, poverty, terrible
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