

“She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.”
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
― The Weight of Glory
― The Weight of Glory

“Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.”
― Hearts in Atlantis
― Hearts in Atlantis

“I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarrelling and reconciliation I need privacy - to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.”
― The Waves
― The Waves

“If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.”
― Poems of Fernando Pessoa
― Poems of Fernando Pessoa
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