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  • Being Alone

    An Essay by Ankit Shah
    www.ankit.fyi
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    This is an essay about why you might want to give being alone a try.

    • loneliness
    • solitude
  • Words which are things

    I have not loved the world, nor the world me;
    I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed
    To its idolatries a patient knee,—
    Nor coined my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud
    In worship of an echo; in the crowd
    They could not deem me one of such; I stood
    Among them, but not of them; in a shroud
    Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could,
    Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued.

    I have not loved the world, nor the world me,—
    But let us part fair foes; I do believe,
    Though I have found them not, that there may be
    Words which are things,—hopes which will not deceive,
    And virtues which are merciful, nor weave
    Snares for the falling: I would also deem
    O'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve;
    That two, or one, are almost what they seem,—
    That goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.

    Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
    • solitude
    • goodness
  • How painful life here would be

    A mountain village
    Where there is not even hope
    Of a visitor:
    If not for the loneliness,
    How painful life here would be.

    — Saigyo (Donald Keene translation)

    Donald Richie, A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
    • melancholy
    • solitude
  • Bo Burnham: Inside

    A Film by Bo Burnham
    en.wikipedia.org
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    1. ​​It's a beautiful day to stay inside​​
    2. ​​Went out to look for a reason to hide again​​
    3. ​​Don't wanna know​​
    4. ​​A little bit of everything all of the time​​
    5. ​​That funny feeling​​
    1. ​​Poioumenon​​
    2. ​​But we're not there​​
    • humor
    • solitude
    • melancholy
    • www
  • Walden

    A Book by Henry David Thoreau
    1. ​​The quality of the day​​
    2. ​​I went to the woods​​
    3. ​​I love to be alone​​
    4. ​​Quiet desperation​​
    5. ​​A new wearer of clothes​​
    1. ​​Upstream Color​​
    2. ​​Thoreau 2.0​​
    3. ​​Upstream Color Original Soundtrack​​
    • nature
    • solitude
    • environment
    • labor
  • To carve a volume into the void of darkness

    The nocturnal sound is a reminder of human solitude and mortality, and it makes one conscious of the entire slumbering city. Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of dripping water in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear in the darkness becomes a cavity sculpted directly in the interior of the mind.

    Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
    • sound
    • darkness
    • sleep
    • solitude
  • Somebody is living on this beach

    Once, I had a dream of fame.
    Generally, even then I was lonely.
    To the castle, a sign must have said.
    Somebody is living on this beach.

    David Markson, Wittgenstein's Mistress
    • fame
    • loneliness
    • solitude
  • I love to be alone

    I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

    Henry David Thoreau, Walden
    1. ​​Upstream Color Original Soundtrack​​
    • solitude
    • friendship
  • The Waste Land

    A Poem by T.S. Eliot
    www.poetryfoundation.org
    1. ​​HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME​​
    2. ​​A handful of dust​​
    3. ​​Who walks beside you?​​
    4. ​​Has it begun to sprout?​​
    5. ​​Fragments​​
    • solitude
    • society
  • Exploiting emotion

    There are no shortcuts to the investment of time and care in friendship and human bonding, and it is fraudulent to pretend otherwise. When human loneliness becomes a source of income for others through devices, we'd better stop and think a bit about the place of human needs in the real world of technology.

    Ursula M. Franklin, The Real World of Technology
    • love
    • friendship
    • exploitation
    • loneliness
    • solitude
  • To the Lighthouse

    A Novel by Virginia Woolf
    gutenberg.net.au
    1. ​​All the lives to be​​
    2. ​​The alphabet​​
    3. ​​Gone crooked​​
    4. ​​Extinguished​​
    5. ​​A thing you could ruffle with your breath​​
    • solitude
    • melancholy
    • loneliness
  • The cubicle

    The cubicle had the effect of putting people close enough to each other to create serious social annoyances, but dividing them so that they didn’t actually feel that they were working together. It had all the hazards of privacy and sociability but the benefits of neither. It got so bad that nobody wanted them taken away; even those three walls offered some kind of psychological home, a place one could call one’s own. All these factors could deepen the frenzied solitude of an office worker.

    Nikil Saval, Cubed
    • work
    • teamwork
    • solitude
    • privacy

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  2. melancholy
  3. friendship
  4. goodness
  5. work
  6. teamwork
  7. privacy
  8. love
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  10. society
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  12. nature
  13. environment
  14. labor
  15. sound
  16. darkness
  17. sleep
  18. humor
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  1. Henry David Thoreau
  2. Lord Byron
  3. Donald Richie
  4. Nikil Saval
  5. Ursula M. Franklin
  6. T.S. Eliot
  7. Virginia Woolf
  8. David Markson
  9. Juhani Pallasmaa
  10. Bo Burnham
  11. Ankit Shah