“And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.”
“In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude!”
“In solitude the solitary man consumes himself, in the crowd the crowd consumes him.”
“Thanks to the night, we long for the day; thanks to the day, we long for the night! The purpose of the opposites is to make us long for something! Thanks to the crowds, we long for the solitude; thanks to the solitude, we long for the crowds!”
“the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
“Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rudeAnd fled to the silence of sweet solitude.”