The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices–after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.
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Tom Stoppard
The cold rationalism simply covers for raw, wounded emotion. The more driven people are by the mind, the more they feel and further encode their feelings. The thickness of the tarpaulin cover is as the size of the emotion.
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Dalit Orbach
Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
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Natalie Goldberg
How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?
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Mary Doria Russell
Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual is, and how far away from his neighbour; and while they talk (generally about babies, past, present, and to come), I fall to...
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Elizabeth Von Arnim
More Quotes By Michel De Montaigne
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
