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Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. - The Man in the Water, 1994.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. - Journal, December, 1900.

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - Love's Cure, 1647.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. - Essays and Soliloquies, 1924.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Books, 1870.

Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - My Summer in a Garden.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.