“But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.”
“A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.”
“books are the arms which murder isolation, drive away loneliness, fulfill a friend's company.”
“what is the difference between being an independent personand being a person who is accepting of loneliness”
“The course of urban development in America is pushing the individual toward that line seperating proud independence from pitiable isolation.”
“Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness.”