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I have not a desire but a need for solitude.

I have not a desire but a need for solitude.
– Roland Barthes

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  8. Above all, do not attempt to be exhaustive. – Roland Barthes
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  10. Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t -œpurify- it. – Roland Barthes
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  12. Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision. – Roland Barthes
  13. What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire. – Stanley Kunitz
  14. There is no greater freedom than the freedom to desire. There is no greater desire than the desire to be free. – R A Delmonico
  15. The greatest desire is the desire to be free. The greatest freedom is the freedom to desire. – RADelmonico
  16. To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change. – Lorii Myers
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  19. Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine. – Honor de Balzac
  20. Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  21. She frowned at him. ‘You are in love with solitude.”Is there a better cure for the world than solitude? – Meg Rosoff
  22. …since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore my own solitude. – Franoise Gilot
  23. Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist. – Jean Genet
  24. But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing. – Virginia Woolf
  25. Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible. – Kilroy J Oldster
  26. Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it. – Jane Hirshfield
  27. True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he longed for solitude, which angels do not know. – Anton Chekhov
  28. In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  29. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. – Talli Roland
  30. When Christianity takes itself seriously, it must either renounce or master the world. – Roland H Bainton
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  32. Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: ‘Ka. – Stephen King
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  38. What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired. – Naomi Wolf
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