“The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.”
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The Piano Teacher (1988)
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Austrian writer 1946Related quotes
“No one can endure his own solitude.”
André Malraux (1901–1976) French novelist, art theorist and politician
Author's commentary, serialized version of La condition humaine in the Nouvelle revue française (1933)
“Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
"Education" http://books.google.com/books?id=iRAWAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Respect+the+child+Be+not+too+much+his+parent+Trespass+not+on+his+solitude%22&pg=PA116#v=onepage, Lectures and biographical sketches (1883), p.116
“Who hears music feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
Balaustion's Adventure, line 323 (1871).
Source: The complete poetical works of Browning
“Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease!
He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace!”
George Gordon Byron book The Bride of Abydos
Canto II, stanza 20. Here Byron is using an adaptation of a quote from Agricola by the Roman historian Tacitus (c. 30). The original words in the text are Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant (To robbery, slaighter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a wilderness, and call it peace). This has also been reported as Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant (They make solitude, which they call peace).
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
“A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.”
Rainer Maria Rilke book Letters to a Young Poet
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.”
Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) French painter
Quote in a letter to his son Lucien, 14th May 1887, as quoted in Renoir – his life and work, Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates /Thames and Hudson Ltd, London 1975, p. 189
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