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Ollie ([personal profile] commonpeople1) wrote2010-05-04 11:54 am

I Think We Are Alone Now

Solitude


Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.--Goethe

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare.--Kenko Yoshida

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.--James Russell Lowell

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.--Albert Einstein

More solitude

[identity profile] millionreasons.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I disagree with Einstein - I loved being alone when young(er) but now find it a bit oppressive.

[identity profile] jellyfish93.livejournal.com 2010-05-04 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
yes, yes and yes.