“ One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's privacy. ”
- Mary Pickford- Copy
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“ I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd, — "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — Solitude is sweet. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ My home…It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten, even by God. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. ”
- Toni Morrison- Copy
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“ Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. ”
- Richard Lovelace- Copy
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“ Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections. ”
- Zacharia- Copy
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“ The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum. ”
- Havelock Ellis- Copy
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“ Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition. ”
- Amelia E. Barr- Copy
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“ The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge. ”
- Marian Mountain- Copy
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“ One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822. ”
- Stendhal- Copy
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“ There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. ”
- Roland Barthes- Copy
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“ We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life! ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
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“ There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
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“ The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold. ”
- Louis Francois Boufflers- Copy
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“ There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self. ”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Copy
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“ We're planning on troop withdrawals without any criteria being met that I can see,... You're taking a very big gamble here. ”
- John McCain- Copy
- 480
“ I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films. ”
- Paul Hogan- Copy
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