“In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.”
“We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.”
“Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human.”
“There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman”
“I am a human being, and thus nothing human is alien to me.”
“Solitude, Celia realizes now, exists for us not to remember but to forget.”