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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.