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Which author wrote, "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude"?

solitude

[sol-i-tood, -tyood] / ˈsɒl ɪˌtud, -ˌtjud /


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If one leaves, the other, diminished in solitude, cannot long survive alone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Ample windows and three distinct outdoor spaces connect the dwelling to the world around it—including views of the Silver Lake Reservoir and San Gabriel mountains—while its tucked-away location in the hills creates space for solitude.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

Oeldorf-Hirsch believes the appeal of solitude content is filling a social need for the creators and their audience, providing some "balance" against the dominance of hyper-glamourised influencer culture.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

But the more overloaded their minds become, the more they pine for a hands-on task—ideally one so noisy that nothing can interrupt their precious solitude.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Merry days were these at Thornfield Hall; and busy days too: how different from the first three months of stillness, monotony, and solitude I had passed beneath its roof!

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Are the vast mountain solitudes of British Columbia, of which but very few have been so far explored, populated by a hairy race of giants—men—not ape-like men?

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2023

“No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved,” he wrote.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022

But the platform is more effective in collecting solitudes than in bringing strangers on a large scale meaningfully together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2020

Who better to offer up an olive branch that can ease the hitherto irreconcilable tensions between Canada’s two solitudes?

From The Guardian ● Jan. 10, 2020

He wandered through the wild solitudes of Thrace, comfortless except for his lyre, playing, always playing, and the rocks and the rivers and the trees heard him gladly, his only companions.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton




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