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“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”

Hunter S. Thompson (American, 1937-2005)

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"I also painted a study of a seascape, nothing but a bit of sand, sea, sky, grey and lonely — sometime[s] I feel a need for that silence — where there’s nothing but the grey sea — with an occasional seabird. But otherwise, no other voice than the murmur of the waves."

Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to his brother Theo, 17 September 1882 (source)

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"By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude."

Henry David Thoreau

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"I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can’t you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club? I despise kissing as a greeting. Why can’t you just shake hands and fuck off? The four of us with Richey all cherished that moment when you’re watching telly, thinking, writing, whatever. It’s just a beautiful thing."

Nicky Wire

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"I just live a terribly solitary life, without any human beings involved whatsoever. And that to me is almost a perfect situation."

Morrissey (1984)

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"Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the ‘murderous din of our materialism’."

Thomas Merton

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"… The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude …"

Aldous Huxley. Proper Studies

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"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But it also gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."

Thomas Mann

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"A book, in contrast, appears a tying down. What happens to you alone, the very aspect that gives a novel its sway, can be felt never to have happened at all, should there be no other face to acknowledge it. So mass media derive their dominance, for no matter the quality of the entertainment, you can turn to your companion exiting the theater and say, “Hey, how about that?” In contrast, a book that you read, one less than well publicized, becomes a kernel carried around for months, or years, before reciprocal consciousness is encountered."

Jeff Price for the Millions, “Cultic with a Chance of Rain: The Novel and Cults and Novels about Cults.”

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“One situation—one alone, could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.” – Patricia Highsmith

Joan Schenkar on writing the biography of America’s great expatriate noir novelist.

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"In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement."

Aldous Huxley

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aftermorrissey:

Morrissey, one of my all-time favorite performers, discussed his lack of sexuality, which he in the past has termed as asexuality, in a 2002 interview from the Observer.  Quoted below is the section of the interview directly related to the question of his sexuality.

Does he have relationships ever? ‘Not physical relationships, no. I mean there are some people on this planet who aren’t obsessed with sex, and I’m one of them. I’m not interested. And I’m not cloaking something, I’m not going somewhere under cover of night and existing in some wild secretive way. I wasn’t interested when I was 17, I wasn’t interested when I was 27, I was less interested when I was 37 and I’m even less interested now. I really enjoy my own company enormously, so I don’t feel a great gaping hole. I sit at home at night and I feel absolutely honoured not having to cater for anybody, or listen, or put up with anybody. I feel it’s a great privilege to live alone.’

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"Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way."

Janet Fitch, White Oleander

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"I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone."

Lord Byron
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"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know."

Carl Gustav Jung
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