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" I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be. "

Elizabeth Gilbert

Silence

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Alone

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" Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity. "

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" Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. "

" It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far. "

" In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! "

" It's always easier if you have the support of your family, if you're not alone. I came from a country that has been through a lot of troubles in the last 20 to 30 years, but we have been through them together. "

" Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy. "

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" I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person. "

" I like to race, not to do laps alone. "

" I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths. "

" Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. "

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" Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. "

" Let your mind alone, and see what happens. "

" A lot of what people are calling 'artificial intelligence' is really data analytics - in other words, business as usual. If the hype leaves you asking 'What is A.I., really?,' don't worry, you're not alone. "

" Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before. "

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Now

Than

" I do love my country. I don't think I'm particularly a good American. I don't know what makes a good American. Other than somebody who - I like people who let other people alone. I think that's a pretty good American. And I keep my hands to myself. So I'm an OK American. "

" The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. "

" I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. "

" If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made. "

" I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems. "

" Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world. "

" I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to. "

" I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone. "

" It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food. "

" I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? "