Solitude

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:39:23 GMT

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Great things are done when men and mountains met.
This is not done by jostling in the street.
--William Blake

You do not need to leave your room.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Do not even listen, simply wait,
be quiet, still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked,
it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
—Franz Kafka, Senses

Hell is other people.
--Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

It is necessary not to be "myself," still less to be "ourselves."
--Simone Weil, Decreation

I have never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
--Henry David Thoreau, Walden

We live as we dream -- alone.
--Joseph Conrad

the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.
-- Tao Te Ching,

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