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I treasure solitude. one doesn't have to have human contact.

-Doris Lessing

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I Treasure Solitude. One Doesn't Have To

Doris Lessing

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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. they took place in solitude. but with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. and then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.

I am not a poor child, lady eleanor," madelyne announced, letting her anger sound in her voice. "duncan won't marry you. he won't sign the contracts. he'd have to give up his greatest treasure in order to marry you." "and what be that treasure?" lady eleanor inquired, her voice mild. "why, i'm duncan's greatest treasure. he'd be a fool to give me up," she added. "and even you must know that duncan is anything but a fool.

The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of human living. man cannot be happy for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul. if man is exiled constantly from his own home, locked out of his spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person.

Computer chips will cost about a penny. that's the cost of scrap paper. the internet will be basically for free and it will be inside our contact lens. when we blink, we will go online. when we see somebody that we don't recognize, our contact lens will identify who they are, print out their biography in your contact lens and translate, if they're speaking chinese, into english with subtitles as they speak.

The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life, cloud life, thunder life, air life, earth life, sun life. to come into immediate felt contact, and so derive energy, power and a dark sort of joy. this effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator is the root meaning of religion.

Anyway, solitary people interest me. there are so many different ways of being solitary.' 'i know just what you mean,' said x. 'i know exactly what you're going to say. different kinds of solitude. enforced solitude and voluntary solitude.' 'quite,' said viktoria. 'there's no need to go into it further. but when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don't you think?

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