I Think We Are Alone Now

[dotinthesky]

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.--Goethe

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare.--Kenko Yoshida

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.--James Russell Lowell

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.--Albert Einstein

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[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I loved both when younger but didn't know it. Nowadays, it's hard for me to find that solitude. When I get it, I feel recharged.