quotes about Solitary
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!
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Writing is a solitary occupation.
-- Bernard CornwellSource : Julianne MacLean (2016). “The Color of a Christmas Miracle”, p.163, Julianne MacLean
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The vain being is the really solitary being.
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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
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Knowledge has no value or use for the solitary owner: to be enjoyed it must be communicated
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A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.
-- Che Guevara -
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A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.
-- Elizabeth GaskellSource : Elizabeth Gaskell (2014). “Life of Charlotte Bronte”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
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I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.
-- Ewan McGregorSource : "Return of the Jedi: Ewan McGregor" by Devin Gordon, www.gq.com. January 3, 2012.
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We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.
-- Francis ParkmanSource : Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.38, VM eBooks
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Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.
-- Geoff Mulgan -
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I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.
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I devoted myself simply to being a solitary person entrusted with a specific task.
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The lover`s discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn`t physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides -
True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
-- Jose Bergamin -
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The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.
-- Kevin Kline -
I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.
-- Louis BayardSource : Louis Bayard (2009). “The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel”, p.36, Harper Collins
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A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer ...
-- Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleySource : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “The Last Man”, p.583, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The power to share has already turned once-solitary activities into social occasions.
-- Melinda Blau -
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To garden is a solitary act.
-- Michelle CliffSource : Michelle Cliff (1980). “Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise”
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It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.
-- Nathanael WestSource : Nathanael West (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust”, p.51, New Directions Publishing
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Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there.
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Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.
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Be not solitary, be not idle
-- Robert BurtonSource : The Anatomy of Melancholy pt. 3, sec. 4 (1621 - 1651) See Samuel Johnson 97
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Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.
-- Sebastian FaulksSource : FaceBook post by Sebastian Faulks from Oct 23, 2016
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One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you.
-- Sheryl Crow -
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I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?
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To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.
-- Walter Benjamin -
Composition has almost always been solitary.
-- Wendy Carlos -
I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
-- Zooey Deschanel -
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All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.
-- Alexander LibermanSource : 1979 In the NewYork Times,13 May.
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I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.
-- Ari MarcopoulosSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.
-- Barbara AscherSource : Barbara Lazear Ascher (1987). “Playing after dark”, Harpercollins
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Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.
-- Beth Harbison -
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I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.
-- Catherine CamusSource : Source: www.spikemagazine.com
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Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.
-- Danny FoxSource : "Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox". Interview With Christiana Spens, thequietus.com. September 22, 2013.
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I'm very fortunate in that all the mediums I work in are extremely collaborative. Movies are probably the most solitary on a day to day basis, but even then you have producers and studio executives to work with and bounce ideas off of.
-- Marc Guggenheim -
Some struggles are so solitary that they drown in words.
-- Martha Manning -
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I really do enjoy getting out to meet my readers. Writing is such a solitary business, it's gratifying to thank folks in person and really connect as human beings and not just words on a screen.
-- Christie GoldenSource : Source: www.geekscape.net
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It is possible to be solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd, and it is possible for one who is solitary to live in the crowd of his own thoughts.
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We cannot evangelize until we have been evangelized. This happens most powerfully through solitary prayer.
-- John Michael TalbotSource : John Michael Talbot (1991). “Blessings: Reflections on the Beatitudes”, Crossroad Publishing Company