Alone

Resumen

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“Perfect solitude is when, for a whole day, no human eye has beheld your face.”
— Berthold Auerbach, On the Heights (1865), trans. Simon Adler Stern. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1907, p. 622
“Who knows what true loneliness is — not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.”
— Joseph Conrad, in Under Western Eyes (1911), Part I, Chapter 2
“Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world. When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.”
— John 6:14–15 (AKJV)
“Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818), the monster, speaking to Victor Frankenstein in Ch. 15.
“Nunquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus; nec minus solum quam cum solus esset.”
— That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure; nor that he was ever less alone than when alone.
“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Solitude

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