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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. read more
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. - Essays and Soliloquies, 1924.
To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor read more
To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - Love's Cure, 1647.
He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - Love's Cure, 1647.
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.
Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent read more
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
