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1 " What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God. "
2 " Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the only. And, being the last, he ceased to be Benjamin, becoming Israel. And upon his heart had settled the history of five thousand years, no longer remote, but become as the history of his own lifetime. His " I" was the converse of the imperial " We. "
3 " The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God. "
4 " As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself. "
― John Steinbeck , East of Eden
5 " Raven had been shunned and abandoned throughout his life. Friends often came and went without a word or worse, they toyed with his emotions and shared his secrets with those he chose to distrust. His loneliness was inevitable and his secrets were damaging enough. Through all of his largely brief but emotionally involved friendships and infatuations, the depression and the darkness of his past, there had been one place to which he could go for solitude—either in thought or in person—and he never shared the knowledge of its existence or its secrets with anyone. That place dwelled within him even all of these years since the summer when he was nine and all that could ever have gone wrong, did. "
― Amanda M. Lyons , Eyes Like Blue Fire
