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I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

Henry David Thoreau

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Walden
Date
1854
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Meaning of “I love to be alone. I never found…”

Solitude is described as companionship rather than deprivation, making room for comfort in one’s own presence.

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Walden, “Solitude”; Thoreau argues that physical aloneness need not amount to loneliness or lack of companionship.

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