Isolation


Where the Crawdads Sing
Haunted
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The Metamorphosis
The Light Between Oceans
The Martian
I Who Have Never Known Men
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Dead of Winter
Wild Dark Shore
Near the Bone
Project Hail Mary
These Silent Woods
Piranesi
Lord of the Flies by William GoldingAnimal Farm by George OrwellMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieHamlet by William Shakespeare
Microcosms and Closed Societies
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Lone Women
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Emotions in Titles
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W. Somerset Maugham
His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless; he was vain of the wider knowledge he had acquired from the perusal of so many books, his mind was alert, and he had not the skill to hide his contempt for his companions' stupidity. They complained that he was conceited; and, since he excelled only in matters which to them were unimportant, they asked satirically what he had to be conceited about. He was developing a se ...more
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

Bohumil Hrabal
I can be by myself because I'm never lonely; I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me. ...more
Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude

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