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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
(Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet. "A Night Among the Pines," Travels With a Donkey (1879).)
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the human
Revery is a solitude in which
We compose these propositions, torn by dreams,
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. Men Made out of Words (l. 4-6). . .
Collected Poems [Stevie Smith]. James MacGibbon, ed. (1976) New Directions.)
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Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.
(Milan Kundera (b. 1929), Czech author, critic. Immortality, pt. 1, ch. 6 (1991).)
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On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life,
Musing is solitude,
(William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. The Excursion: The Recluse (l. 1-2). . .
The Poems; Vol. 2 [William Wordsworth]. John O. Hayden, ed. (1977, repr. 1989) Penguin Books.)
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A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection, New York (1987).)
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Solitude is un-American.
(Erica Jong (b. 1942), U.S. author. Fear of Flying, ch. 1 (1973).)
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
(Moliθre [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622-1673), French comic playwright. Cιlimθne, in The Misanthrope, act 5, sc. 4 (1666).
Cιlimθne refuses to move from Paris to the country.)
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
(George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, cto. 3, st. 90 (1812-1818).)
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