Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.
FRED ROGERS Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
ANNA NEAGLE Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
MAY SARTON Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
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JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
HENRY MILLER An artist is always alone / if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
PAUL TILLICH There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
MAGGIE SMITH My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
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MELANIE CUSICK-JONES being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When everyone leaves you its loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else its solitude.
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PAUL TILLICH Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, where we are least alone.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
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Thank you.
For all that is to come,
Yes!
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