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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.
I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.
To be adult is to be alone.
To be adult is to be 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
