I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
[Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre]
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
[Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales]
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