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«Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.»
Author: Alice Koller
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Solitude
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absence, achievement, aware, choice, doings, fullness, immerse, immersed, immersing, luxuriously, of your own, presence, solitary, solitude, well-being, well aware, won
«But 'twas beyond a mortal's share / To wander solitary there: / Two paradises 'twere in one, / To live in paradise alone.»
Author: Andrew Marvell
(Poet, Politician, Satirist)
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mortal, paradise, paradises, solitary, wander
«A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.»
«He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.»
Author: Henry James
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aesthetic, alien, autumn, brushes, dusky, Everything is Beautiful, solitary, wing
«By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Self-interest
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gregarious, reinforce, reinforced, reinforces, reinforcing, remained, self interest, solitary, to a great extent
«Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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again and again, cities, demand, desert, intellectual, most populous, palpable, populous, resist, solitary, vast
«Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.»
«A solitary sorrow best befits / Thy lips, and antheming a lonely grief.»
«But everything that may some day be possible to many the solitary man can now prepare and build with his hands, that err less. Therefore, dear sir, love your solitude and bear with sweet-sounding lamentation the suffering it causes you. For those who are near you are far, you say, and that shows it is beginning to grow wide about you. And when what is near you is far, then your distance is already among the stars and very large; rejoice in your growth, in which you naturally can take no one with you, and be kind to those who remain behind, and be sure and calm before them and do not torment them with your doubts and do not frighten them with your confidence or joy, which they could not understand. Seek yourself some sort of simple and loyal community with them, which need not necessarily change as you yourself become different and again different; love in them life in an unfamiliar form and be considerate of aging people, who fear that being-alone in which you trust.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Growth,
Solitude
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aging, as far as possible, change hands, considerate, err, far and wide, frighten, lamentation, Lamentations, loyal, solitary, sounding, The Suffering, torment, unfamiliar, unfamiliar with
«Behold her, single in the field,Yon solitary Highland lass!Reaping and singing by herself;Stop here, or gently pass!»
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