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1 " You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company. "
― Caspar David Friedrich
2 " I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. Solitude is indispensible for my dialogue with nature. "
3 " Why, it has often occurred to me to ask myself, do I so frequently choose death, transience, and the grave as subjects for my paintings? One must submit oneself many times to death in order some day to attain life everlasting. "
