“I owe my solitude to other people.”
“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”
“I did not feel that he owed it to me. And I did not feel like I owed it to him. We owed it to each other, which is something different.”
“What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?”
“But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.”