Loneliness
& undoing aloneness

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Ah, look at all the lonely people.

—Beatles

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It is strange
to be known so universally
and yet to be so lonely.

―Albert Einstein

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Just a small town girl
livin' in a lonely world
She took the midnight train
goin' anywhere

—Journey

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And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone

—Edgar Allan Poe

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I'm in the habit
of being alone.
I try hard to break it,
I can't on my own.

—Edie Brickell

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Well, I
wait around the train station
waitin' for that train
waitin' for the train, yeah
to take me
from this lonesome place

—Jimi Hendrix

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If I should be short on words
and long on things to say,
could you crawl into my world
and take me worlds away.

—Chris Cornell

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I go to the hills
when my heart is lonely.

—The Sound of Music

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O’Keeffe said
a very old friend of hers—Dave—
was one of the few people
she could stand with
in a beautiful place
and feel all alone.
Those people are pretty rare
she said,
she once stood with him
on the rim of the Grand Canyon
and felt alone.

—C.S. Merrill,
O’Keeffe: Days in a Life

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Sometimes I feel like
my only friend.

—Red Hot Chili Peppers

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I know what it means
to be alone.

—Led Zeppelin

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the irony of loneliness
is we all feel it
at the same time

—rupi kaur

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Whoever you are,
no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself
to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese,
harsh and exciting—
over and over
announcing your place
in the family of things.

—Mary Oliver

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Alone we can do so little.
Together we can do so much.

—Helen Keller

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You can stand
under my umbrella.

—Rihanna

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Take me with you.

—My therapist

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Poem: Masks