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Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

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

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

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.