“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”
— Pearl S. Buck
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“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.”
— Beth Henley
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“Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.”
— Luke Ford
Author: Luke Ford
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“The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.”
— Jack Valenti
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“The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.”
— Vivienne Westwood
Author: Vivienne Westwood
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“Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.”
— Muhammad Iqbal
Author: Muhammad Iqbal
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“Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.”
— Alice Koller
Author: Alice Koller
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“There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.”
— William Shirley
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“Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.”
— Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
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