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  1. Irvine Welsh _ Skagboys

    Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.
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  2. Charles Bukowski _ Women

    being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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  3. Patrick McGrath _ The Grotesque

    Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.
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  4. Ellis Peters _ The Heretic's Apprentice

    They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.
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  5. Valeria Luiselli _ Lost Children Archive

    I had made the very common mistake of thinking that marriage was a mode of absolute commonality and a breaking down of all boundaries, instead of understanding it simply as a pact between two people willing to be the guardians of each other's solitude."
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  6. Harold Bloom

    Reading well is one of the great pleasure
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  7. Simone de Beauvoir _ Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

    Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a witness, without anyone to speak to, without refuge. The breath in my body, the blood in my veins, all this hurly-burly in my head existed for nobody.
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  8. Arthur Schopenhauer _ Parerga and Paralipomena

    The ingenious person will above all strive for freedom from pain and annoyance, for tranquility and leisure, and consequently seek a quiet, modest life, as undisturbed as possible, and accordingly, after some acquaintance with so-called human beings, choose seclusion and, if in possession of a great mind, even solitude. For the more somebody has in himself, the less he needs from the outside and the less others can be to him. Therefore, intellectual distinction leads to unsociability.
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  9. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    This was not my moment to be seeking romance and {as day follows night} to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.
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  10. C.S. Lewis _ The Weight of Glory

    We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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  11. Virginia Woolf _ To the Lighthouse

    ...children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one said, and what one did, and it was a relief when they went to bed. For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of-- to think; well, not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.
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  12. James Salter _ Light Years

    She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushes, like fever, of contentment. I am beyond fear of solitude, she thought, I am past it. The idea thrilled her. I am beyond it and I will not sink. This submission, this triumph made her stronger. It was as if finally, after having passed through inferior stages, her life had found a form worthy of it.
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