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" An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. "

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" I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly. "

" Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. "

" I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely. "

" Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be. "

" I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want. "

" It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone. "

" You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone. "

" The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. "

" Remember we're all in this alone. "

" This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. "

" Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. "

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" I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. "

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" Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone. "

" There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert, let alone the average child, can comprehend. The gadgets that now pervade young people's lives, iPhones and suchlike, are baffling 'black boxes' - pure magic to most people. "

" Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. "

" Schizophrenia beats dining alone. "

" I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness. "

" Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me. "

" The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. "

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