Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
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.
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
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