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«Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.»
Author: Jessamyn West
(Writer)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
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«The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence»
Author: Thomas Wolfe
| About:
Belief,
Life,
Loneliness,
Principles
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conviction, curious, human existence, inevitable, peculiar, phenomenon, rests, solitary, The central
«We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| About:
Violence
| Keywords:
inflict, inflicting, less than, private, solitary, terrifies, terrify, terrifying, violence
«The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.»
Author: M. Scott Peck
(Author, psychiatrist)
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Change of Heart, depend, depend on, Human history, humble, solitary, The Battle, ultimately, waged
«We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!»
Author: Tennessee Williams
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all of, All of Us, confinement, our own, sentenced, sentencing, skinned, skinning, skins, solitary, solitary confinement
«Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors»
«To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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all-time, appeal, book of knowledge, conception, councils, council of, Judges, LED, of all time, purer, rightly, sentence, solitary, unstable, wider
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