"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on Love
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"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

Hammarskjold, Dag on Purpose
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"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day."

Hemingway, Ernest on Writers and Writing
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"A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye."

Wells, Carolyn on Cynics and Cynicism
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"A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be."

Bierce, Ambrose on Cynics and Cynicism
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"Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."

Trotsky, Leon on Causes
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"Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole."

Baum, Vicki on Fame
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"Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness."

Lowell, Amy on Moon
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"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

Eliot, George on Suspicion
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"The penalty of leadership is loneliness."

Robinson, H. Wheeler on Leaders and Leadership
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"No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness."

Bernanos, Georges on Loneliness
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"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."

Durrell, Lawrence on Music
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"If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry."

Chekhov, Anton on Solitude
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"An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."

Miller, Henry on Solitude
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