"Quand on est seul, on est en libre d’imaginer tout ce qu’on veut, on rêve à sa guise, on se sent bien, sans doute parce que la pensée n’est pas polluée par celle des autres, car la pollution commence là."
"In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered..."
- Tacitus, Germania
"One must work in solitude as a man who opens a clearing in virgin forest, sustained by the unique hope that somewhere in its depths, others are working to the same end."
- Ernst Jünger
"I find that I must go handsomely, whatever it costs me, and the charge will be made up in the fruit it brings."
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Saw your note on Summer is a Verb, delightful blog that it is. Thought I'd leave a quick hello from a fellow SoCal prep!
J'aime bien cette citation. Il y a une tristesse autour de sa vérité.
Solitude and much of it, is to me not only a necessity but also a great enjoyment and relaxation!
'Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,
Our own felicity we make or find'
(Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller)
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