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Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

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

The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.

I don't like being alone.