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" What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. "

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

Richard Jefferies

" No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius. "

" Language... 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. "

" Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner. "

" For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. "

" Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment. "

" As long as you keep going, you'll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success. "

" It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. "

" For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? "

" I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!' "

" Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. "

Charlie Chaplin

" Solitude is un-American. "

" Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. "

William Alexander

" I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else. "

" Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story. "

" The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold. "

" We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing. "

Charles Bukowski

" When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known. "

" I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me. "

" When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone. "

" If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience. "

Robert M. Gates

" There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. "

" Is being single hard? It depends where your mind is. If you are focused, being single is an enjoyable experience, but if you hate being alone, you'll hate being single. I think it depends on the individual are where they are in life. "

" When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube. "

" Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. "

" Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. "