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" My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone. "

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" I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination. "

" My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me. "

" Man cannot live by incompetence alone. "

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" I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create. "

" Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. "

" A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. "

Henry David Thoreau

" How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life? "

" In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a 'should' involved, and this cannot be worked out from, 'If I do this, what will happen?' alone. "

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" I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world. "

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" I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot. "

" Just remember, you are not alone, in fact you are in a very common place with millions of others. We need to help each other and keep striving to reach our goals. "

" No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone. "

" No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers. "

" And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light. "

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" An inspiration - a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought - could alone give health to the heart. "

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" No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. "

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" I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist. "

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" Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. "

" I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive. "

" Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. "

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" In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence. "