solitude
“No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.”
“He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.”
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
“Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.”
“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“We live, as we dream—alone.”