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Solitude Quotes and Quotations
 There are three things a man must do alone. Be born, die, and testify.  Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. We never touch but at points. I was never less alone than when by myself., In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers. Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. One can acquire everything in solitude but character. - Stendhal Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. It's a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night. We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. Night, when words fade and things come alive, when the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. In solitude, when we are least alone. We enter the world alone, we leave it alone. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea. 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. The strongest man is the one who stands most alone. Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. 
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