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Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.

Amy Tan

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Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

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Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

Rollo May

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The doer alone learneth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern.

Frank Abagnale

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Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

Naveen Jain

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He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

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You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Dr. Seuss

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Charles de Gaulle

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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Helen Keller

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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Orson Welles

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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Yoko Ono

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I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

Chantal Kreviazuk

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

St. Jerome

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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

John Quincy Adams

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I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

Adam Levine

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Being alone is very difficult.

Yoko Ono

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Being alone and actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

Kourtney Kardashian

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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