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solitude too-much study
Samuel Johnson Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
solitude true-life impatience
Vita Sackville-West The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.
solitude
Witold Gombrowicz Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.
solitude bitterness pardon
Salvatore Quasimodo We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
solitude eternal-love world
William Drummond Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.
solitude trying down-and
Jose Mujica Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.
solitude gregarious persons
Nelson Mandela Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.
solitude world noise
Oswald Chambers Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
peculiar abnormal normal-and-abnormal
Louise Brown I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.
peculiar year
Greg Moore This is a very peculiar year for flu.
peculiar
John Bankhead It's very peculiar that he isn't ... We're investigating to find out why.
peculiar life-is
Djuna Barnes One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
peculiar ridiculous
Thomas Ligotti Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.
peculiar
Evelyn Underhill You don't have to be peculiar to find God,
peculiar location problem
Flannery O'Connor The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
peculiar capacity form
Jeanette Winterson Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.
peculiar world strange
Jelly Roll Morton In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.
thrones taverns chairs
Samuel Johnson A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.
thrones behinds
Will Self The éminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.
thrones empty
Napoleon Bonaparte An empty throne always tempts me.
thrones slave should
Lord Byron I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be let it end.
thrones virtue weak
Charles Churchill Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
thrones married slave
Honore de Balzac La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.