A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.
A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.
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