Sunday Dinner: Solitude

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“Solitude is independence.

It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it.

It was cold. Oh, cold enough!

But it was also still, wonderfully still

and vast like the cold stillness of space

in which the stars revolve.”

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Hermann Hesse

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“We live, in fact, in a world starved

for solitude, silence, and private:

and therefore starved for meditation

and true friendship.”

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C.S. Lewis

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Jamestown Island, Virginia

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“But your solitude will be a support

and a home for you,

even in the midst

of very unfamiliar circumstances,

and from it you will find all your paths.”

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Rainer Maria Rilke

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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2017

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Crabs at low tide in the marsh

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“If you’re lonely when you’re alone,

you’re in bad company.”

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Jean-Paul Sartre