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    Albert Camus
    “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

    [The Minotaur]”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: introspection, retreat, solitude
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: autumn, fall, solitude
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    Virginia Woolf
    “How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the
    room was like sunlight to me.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: silence, understand
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    Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    “When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
    ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    tags: censorship, lies, lying, silence, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: inspirational
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: companions, company, privacy, solitude
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “All good things are wild and free.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Virginia Woolf
    “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth
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    Virginia Woolf
    “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Virginia Woolf
    “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
    tags: calming, reassuring, true
    2305 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: growing-up, illusions, life
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    C.S. Lewis
    “We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: dark, stars
    3900 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: belief, experience, faith, judging-from-experience, religion, unseen
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen
    tags: criticism
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: humour, life
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: enemies, explanations, friends
    707 likes

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    Elbert Hubbard
    “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: mistakes
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: love
    219 likes

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    Elbert Hubbard
    “I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: appreciation, insight, wealth, wisdom, wit
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Ayn Rand
    “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: fight, happiness, learn
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    Ayn Rand
    “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    1943 likes



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