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" God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. "

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" I was watching the Nina Simone documentary alone in my room, and I said out loud to myself, 'Why do we not know that this woman is beauty? She is beauty! Why did no one tell me this growing up? Why was her name not next to 'beauty' in the dictionary?' "

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" I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing with any pain you have. "

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" But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place. "

" Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. "

" Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. "

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" All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru. "

" Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time. "

" Connected to the collective heart, you can be certain in every cell of your being that you are never alone, and you will experience the grace, guidance and ease that comes when you are one with all there is. "

" Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. "

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" The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you. "

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" I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom. "

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" Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. "

" The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. "

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" Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. "

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" Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone. "

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" I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. "

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