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"If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?"

"The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precede..."

"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."

"I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness."

"...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine."

"But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. 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 ..."

"Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You."

"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."

"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. "