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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone let him be where he will.

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Author:

Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Loneliness

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her like a bank note for two 20s.
  • 2. Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me and I really liked that.
  • 3. I love my kids and the moments I have with them and it's kind of weird it's such an age old cliche but the way that my sons the way they make me feel when I look at them the way they say things no one else would probably react to them but it's a special thing for me.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Some people are born with a brain that has this weird magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.
  • 2. It doesn't take money to have style it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find amazing culinary antiques that will make it feel like an old French kitchen.
  • 3. I mean there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

3 Anger

  • 1. It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
  • 2. Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
  • 3. No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
  • 2. My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families.
  • 3. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.

5 Architecture

  • 1. All those involved in the construction of an architectural design from the architect to the builder have an attachment to the architecture although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
  • 2. If you give people nothingness they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
  • 3. The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
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