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Peace of mind is impossible without a considerable amount of solitude.
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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! he is his own exclusive object.
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A gloomy sensation of agonising, everlasting solitude and remoteness, took conscious form in his soul.
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Our life is frittered away by detail
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I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.
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As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths in the heart of man which the storms of sin and sorrow can never disturb.
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Standing here in the deep, brooding silence all the wilderness seems motionless, as if the work of creation were done.
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Only spread a fern frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
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For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.