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Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The peace-loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of human instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape...” Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech
Stephenie Meyer
“The isolation must be their desire; I couldn't imagine any door that wouldn't be opened by that degree of beauty.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
Virginia Woolf
“now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
Haruki Murakami
“Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why?” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
Tennessee Williams
“She lives in a world of her own — a world of little glass ornaments, Mother...” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Haruki Murakami
“Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.” Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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