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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was read more
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.
It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.
Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it read more
Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the read more
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious read more
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
