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To be a solitary but not an individualist: concerned not with
merely perfecting one's own life (this, as Marx saw it, is an
indecent luxury and full of illusion). One's solitude belongs
to the world and to God. Are these just words? Solitude has
its own special work: a deepening of awareness that the world
needs. A struggle against alienation. True solitude is deeply
aware of the world's needs. It does not hold the world at
arm's length.
-- Thomas Merton
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It takes a lot of solitude to understand anything.
-- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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