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"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."

— bell hooks

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"Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering."

— Don Miguel Ruiz

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"Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book."

— Michael Ondaantje, The English Patient

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