#solitude – @anenlighteningellipsis on Tumblr

Nietzsche, with the most monotonous external life possible, proves that thought alone, carried on in solitude, is a frightening adventure.

Albert Camus, Notebooks 1942-1951. (via dronegirl)

#my prior self coming for 31yr old me's carotid #excuse me did I ask for this #fuck offff #***#I am not electively solitary rn unfortunately...#but that's as maudlin and self pitying as I'm going to get in the tags today #friedrich nietzsche #albert camus #quotes #solitude #on thought #one can indeed be alone for too long

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Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people.

Fernando Pessoa

#!!!!#***#this #forever and ever #it's money.... it all comes down to money #quotes #freedom #solitude #fernando pessoa #to see if there's a pub

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How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

#***#indeed...#virginia woolf #the waves #quotes #solitude #tea and coffee #myself being myself #personal #to see if there's a pub

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earltostig

Johann Heinrich Füssli (1741 - 1825) - The Loneliness at Dawn

#Mood #the loneliness at dawn #loneliness #solitude #art #johann heinrich fussli #to see if there's a pub

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mglynnk

Witchcraft is remembrance. There was a time when you were free. Remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed naked in the sunlight–remember. You were wise woman and healer, you were huntress and amazon–remember that. You say you have lost all recollection of it; remember. Your bones remember. When you invoke your past, your heroines, your goddesses, your dreams–it is yourself you call to life. Remember who you are.

Les Guérillères, Monique Wittig

#***#les guerilleres #monique wittig #witchery #remembrance #memory #freedom #solitude #my bones remember #quotes #!!!

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sakrogoat

Frederick Leighton - Solitude

#art #frederick leighton #femmes #solitude #out to tea

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luthienne

To be together without either losing his solitude, to remain alone each on his or her side without the whole breaking,

Hélène Cixous, Hyperdream (tr. Beverly Bie Brahic)

#***#aahhh…. there's the elusive ideal #hélène cixous #hyperdream #solitude #togetherness #intimacy #the true intimacy #wholeness #quotes #to see if there's a pub

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gnossienne

Keep your secrets, cherish your solitude, guard your heart close. Let no one convince you that you are anything less than whole alone.

#amen honey #solitude #le cœur #text #personal

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antigonick

It was when I played alone that I found it possible to be myself, but a different myself […]. In some ways, I was more myself at those times than at any other — a stronger and more certain myself, wittier, more clearly defined, a myself of accomplishment and renown—

Philip Pullman, excerpt of “Imaginary Friends”, in Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling

#***#philip pullman #daemon voices #solitude #the self #quotes

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bistovri

Andrei Tarkovsky: A Poet in the Cinema

#***#andrei tarkovsky #subtitles #solitude #I did learn as a child Andrei #kindly curb your tone #to see if there's a pub

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Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

#heart of my heart #virginia woolf #the waves #quotes #the little things #solitude #silence #… even though i'm looking at a video on Victorian fashion specifically waist editing in photos...#*aherm*

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I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

#repeat #***#personal #henry miller #tropic of cancer #quotes #solitude #self isolation #:///#at least that's what it's turned into of late

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filmnoirsbian

I have so much love and respect for women who are honest about their own loneliness but also find the good in it like when audrey hepburn said “I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel” and when charlotte bronte said “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself” and when jenny slate said “I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that there will always be a ribbon of loneliness running through who I am. But that’s why I want to do comedy, and why I want to connect with people. You can use that ribbon to be a part of a finer tapestry, or you can choke yourself out with it! Your choice!” and when mary oliver said “whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things”

#***#forever and ever amen #!!!!!!!!#alone #solitude #loneliness #introversion #personal #text #remember