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We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

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It’s never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.

Our difficulty accepting impermanence is the heart of human suffering.

Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality … is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.

Solitude matters, and for some people it is the air that they breathe.

Groups follow the most charismatic person, even though there is no correlation between being a good speaker and having great ideas.

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When, musing on companions gone,
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

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