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The fool needs company, the wise solitude.
Fools and Foolishness
Ruckett

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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Creativity
Carl Sandburg

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The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.
Independence
Steve Schmidt

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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Greatness
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
Solitude
Sydney Smith

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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Solitude
Henri B. Stendhal

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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Solitude
Laurence Sterne

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If you would live innocently, seek solitude.
Innocence
Publilius Syrus

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Home
Henry David Thoreau

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I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.
Solitude
Henry David Thoreau

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Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.
Solitude
Source Unknown

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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
Perfection
John Updike

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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Life and Death
Edward Young

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun