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“She lives in a world of her own — a world of little glass ornaments, Mother...” Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” - 1944

“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” - 5 October 1937

“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” - 2005

“Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why?” Haruki Murakami, “Sputnik Sweetheart” - 1999

“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” - 2007

“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” - 1925

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