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solitude crowds hours
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. Arthur Brisbane
solitude walks ifs
After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it. Elfriede Jelinek
solitude left
Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God. Robert Frost
solitude salt flavor
Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience. May Sarton
solitude adore thirst
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.
solitude haughtiness roof
Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude. Plato
solitude poverty virtue
The poor attend to their own virtue in solitude. Mencius
solitude made capacity
Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves. Michel de Montaigne
solitude needs alive
I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you. Florida Scott-Maxwell
isolation worst isolated
The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. Annie Lennox
isolation utopia separateness
The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia. Toni Morrison
isolation bigs songwriting
Isolation is a big part of songwriting. Natalie Imbruglia
conceited thinking want
Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist. Ayn Rand
conceit dearest delight gratify hers though wound
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers George Bernard Shaw
conceited sake proud
If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited. J. I. Packer
conceited persons small-packages
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package. Harry Emerson Fosdick
conceited race self
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race. Horace
conceited bored egotism
We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
conceited people feelings
No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion. Georg C. Lichtenberg
conceited thinking religion
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him. Walter Savage Landor
conceited self bears
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. William Hazlitt