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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.
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and
the flowers faded.
I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and
the flowers faded.
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.
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.
I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,--
"How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude."
But grant read more
I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,--
"How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude."
But grant me still a friend in my retreat,
Whom I may whisper--Solitude is sweet.
This is to be along; this, this is solitude!
This is to be along; this, this is solitude!
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion read more
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is read more
I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is the answer to everything, but I'm tired of being alone.
