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Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you

Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

Albert Camus
Self, Giving, Solitude

She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.

Albert Camus
Heart, Waiting, Solitude
Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Albert Camus
Order, Solitude, World
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.157, Vintage

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

Albert Camus
Solitude, Poverty, Values
"Between Yes and No," World Review magazine,"Between Yes and No," World Review magazine, March, 1950.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Albert Camus
Solitude, Religion, Weight
Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

Albert Camus
Solitude, Violence, Working Conditions
Albert Camus, Jean Grenier (2003). “Correspondence, 1932-1960”, p.195, U of Nebraska Press

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

Albert Camus
Solitude, Together, Crime

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