Solitude

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Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 4, st. 178.

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Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 4, st. 178.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Franz Kappus. 16 July 1903.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth. Penguin Classics, 2014.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Henrik Ibsen

An Enemy of the People

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Ibsen, Henrik. En folkefiende [An Enemy of the People]. Kobenhavn: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1882, act 5.

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Ibsen, Henrik. "An Enemy of the People." A Doll's House and Other Plays, translated by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik. Penguin Classics, 2016, act 5.

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Conrad, Joseph. "Heart of Darkness." Blackwood's Magazine. London and Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, Feb. 1899 - Apr. 1899.

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Conrad, Joseph. "Heart of Darkness." Heart of Darkness and Other Tales, edited by Cedric Watts. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 1.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 211.

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 211.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 4.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 4.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, pt. 4.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 4.

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 31.

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Pope, Alexander. "Ode on Solitude." 1700?

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Pope, Alexander. "Ode on Solitude." Essay on Man & Other Poems. Dover, 1994.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker. 12 Feb. 1902.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Georg Trakl

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Trakl, Georg. "De profundis." Gedichte. Contumax, 1913.

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Trakl, Georg. "De profundis." To the Silenced, translated by Will Stone. Arc Publications, 2005.

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Hesse, Herman. Der Steppenwolf [The Steppenwolf]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1927.

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Hesse, Herman. Steppenwolf, translated by Basil Creighton. Picador, 2002.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence-free of the network of dead speech.

Freya Stark

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Stark, Freya. Perseus in the Wind. London: John Murray, 1948, ch. 1.

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Clare, John. "I Am." The Bedford Times, 1 Jan. 1848, I. 13.

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Clare, John. "I Am." John Clare: Major Works, edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 13.

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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 7, I. 1001.

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"Paradise Lost." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 8, I. 364.

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Up in the Air. Directed by Jason Reitman, DreamWorks Pictures/The Montecito Picture Company/Cold Spring Pictures/Rickshaw Productions/Right of Way Films, 2009.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "De La Solitude [Of Solitude]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "Of Solitude." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.