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National isolation breeds national neurosis.
(Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978), U.S. Democratic politician, vice president. speech, Jan. 6, 1967, delivered at Buffalo, New York.)
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Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection, New York (1994).)
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Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).)
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But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Self-Reliance," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).)
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But, my dear, you cannot live in isolation from the human race, you know.
(John Clifford, U.S. screenwriter, and Herk Harvey. Minister (Stan Levitt), Carnival of Souls, speaking to his new church organist, who refuses to attend a reception in her honor (1962).)
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In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.
(Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989), U.S. historian. "How We Entered World War I," New York Times Magazine (May 5, 1967).)
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I call it our collective inheritance of isolation. We inherit isolation in the bones of our lives. It is passed on to us as sure as the shape of our noses and the length of our legs. When we are young, we are taught to keep to ourselves for reasons we may not yet understand. As we grow up we become the "men who never cry" and the "women who never complain." We become another generation of people expected not to bother others with our problems.
(Paula C. Lowe (20th century), U.S. author, family life educator. Care Pooling, ch. 5 (1993).)
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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.
(Eleonora Duse (1859-1924), Italian actor. As quoted in Actors on Acting, rev. ed., part 11, by Toby Cole and Helen Krich (1970).)
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This [new] period of parenting is an intense one. Never will we know such responsibility, such productive and hard work, such potential for isolation in the caretaking role and such intimacy and close involvement in the growth and development of another human being.
(Joan Sheingold Ditzion and Dennie Palmer (20th century). Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women's Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978).)
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At this unique distance from isolation
It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind,
Or not untrue and not unkind.
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Talking in Bed.")
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