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Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.