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Proust:
"Real books must be children not of broad daylight and small talk but of darkness and silence."
Rilke:
"What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude. Going into yourself and meeting no one for hours on end—that is what you must be able to attain."
Walter de la Mare:
"Again and again he must stand back from the press and habit of convention. He must keep on recapturing solitude."
Emily Dickinson:
"If you talk to no one, you are amassing thought which will be bright and golden for those you left at home—we meet our friends and a constant interchange wastes tho't and feeling and we are then obliged to repair and renew—there isn't that brimfull feeling that one gets away." She even shunned men and women, she said, because "they talk of hallowed things and embarrass my dog".
