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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

I like being alone, listening to music in my own world, away from all the bullshit in life.”