“Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.”
Part II, Chapter III
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)
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French novelist, art theorist and politician 1901–1976Related quotes
Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 42
Magic And Mystery In Tibet
“More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Bergman on Bergman (1970)
Context: Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others — that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security. By constant communion with others we hope we shall be able to accept the horrible fact of our total solitude. We're always reaching out for new projects, new structure, new systems in order to abolish — partly or wholly — our insight into our loneliness. If it weren't so, religious systems would never arise.
