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Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces read more
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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.
So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state read more
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
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.
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.
It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.
