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  1. Jonathan Franzen _ How to Be Alone

    the first lesson reading teaches us is how to be alone.
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  2. Jonathan Franzen _ Farther Away

    The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there's no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.
    book-quotesuicidesatisfactionloneliness

  3. J.D. Salinger

    I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music, and I'll bolt the door."
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  4. Paulo Coelho _ Warrior of the Light

    Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life."
    book-quotelifepeaceinspiration

  5. P.D. James _ The Children of Men

    I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.
    book-quoteloveresponsibilityprotection

  6. Rumer Godden _ Thus far and no further

    In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still; it goes deeper and makes for itself a deeper groove, delves. Delve meansa 'dig with a spade'; it means hard work. In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself. It needs sturdiness. You will be lonely, you will be depressed; you must expect it; if you were training your body it would ache and be tired. It is worth it. There is a Hindu proverb which says: 'You only grow when you are alone'.
    book-quotesolitudelonliness

  7. Ian Fleming _ The Spy Who Loved Me

    Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.
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  8. Lois Lowry _ Son

    It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.
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  9. Patrick Süskind _ Perfume: The Story of a

    He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!
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  10. Patrick Süskind _ Perfume: The Story of a

    And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning.
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  11. Patrick Süskind _ Perfume: The Story of a

    People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.
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  12. Tracy Chevalier _ At the Edge of the Orchard

    It turned out plant collecting was a solitary occupation. In the past Robert had enjoyed being alone, or so he thought. Actually he had rarely been alone for long: working in hotels, in stables, on ranches and farms, and as a miner, he had always been around others. Now, out in the woods or up in the hills or out on the flat central plain, he could go for days without speaking to anyone. His throat seemed to close up and he had to keep clearing it, singing songs aloud or reciting the Latin names of plants, just to check that he still had a voice. 'Araucaria imbricata. Sequoia sempervirens. Pinus lambertiana. Abies magnifica'. He was surprised at how much he missed people..
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