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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Edward Gibbon
Single, Wisdom, Loneliness
Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.277

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Edward Gibbon
Loneliness, Being Alone, Feeling Alone
Edward Gibbon, John Baker Holroyd (2014). “Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire”, p.83, Cambridge University Press

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Edward Gibbon
Time, Loneliness, Being Alone

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