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Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.
Henri Nouwen
Tags: Time Alone Very
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.


Richard Dawkins
Tags: More Out Than
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When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.


Lew Wallace
Tags: People Any Lonely
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.


Henry Adams
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Solitude begets whimsies.


Mary Wortley Montagu
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.


Honore de Balzac
Tags: You Need Someone
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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.


Jackie Kennedy
Tags: Time Money You
In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Tags: More Than Which
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I like peace and solitude and silence.


Carla Bruni
Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.
Robert Fulghum
Tags: Same Possible Sea
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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.


Sydney Smith
Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.
William Jay
Tags: How Some Say
Look at Austen. In her novels, you get a dance, followed by an encounter, followed by a letter, then a period of solitude. No flashbacks and no backstory. Let's have no more back story!
Colm Toibin
Tags: You More Get
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I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.


Michael Chabon
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Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.


Keenen Ivory Wayans
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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.


Eric Clapton
Tags: Like Life Quiet
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
Woodrow Wilson
In August 2012, the international community should have been far more determined in dealing with the Bashar Assad regime.
Francois Hollande
Tags: More Been Should
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.


Aristotle
Tags: God Either Wild
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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.


Lord Byron
Tags: Alone Then Where