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    The Solitude of Gardening

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    The Solitude of Gardening As someone that has been raised around the automotive industry‚ I’ve always found contentment in working under a car. The peacefulness and honesty of the work‚ whether its someone else’s auto or your own‚ just narrowing your focus to nothing more then the tools in your hand and the machinery in front of you provides a state of functional solitude. Where it is not the unproductive absence of all activity around you that isolated you‚ but the focus on performing your

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    'The End Of Solitude'

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    Solitude is the state of being alone or feeling lonely in an inhabited place. The definition of solitude has evolved since technology was introduced to us humans. In “The End of Solitude‚” Deresiewicz says that electronics have made us incapable of being alone – that we no longer appreciate solitude because it causes fear in us. He also argues that we are replacing solitude by being in constant communication with social media. “This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized‚

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    PLEASURES OF READING

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    Pleasures of Reading Some people get pleasure from picnics and tours. Others like to discuss various topics and find pleasure in it. But the reading of books provides us with such pleasure as we do not get from any other activity. Great is the blessing of books. Books are written by learned persons. They contain the best experiences and thoughts of their writers. Literature is said to mirror society. Writers put in their books not only their own ideas and feelings‚ but also what they observe and

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    The Pleasure Principle

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    The Pleasure Principle The purpose of life has been discussed since the beginning. No one knows the meaning of life‚ and if they do‚ they’re not telling. Even trying to write off life as having no point doesn’t satisfy anyone; it doesn’t’ make a difference. Brittany doesn’t like the egocentric view that humans take as to say the answer purpose of life exists solely within themselves‚ not animals or other species. We don’t agree that religion holds the answer to the question of the purpose of

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    Pleasure of Reading

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    Reading a book is perhaps the greatest source of pleasure to a cultured person. Reading broadens his outlook‚ drives away his narrow prejudices and lightens up his mind with truth and knowledge. Books are our best friends. They never deceive or desert us in our hour of need like so many of our human friends‚ and the advantages once received from the reading of books remain with us throughout our lives. It is a great pleasure for us to read the books of the master minds of the past that have brightened

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    Pleasure of Walking

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    Lincoln‚ and Truman. Walking today is riding a wave of popularity that draws its strength from a rediscovery of walking’s utility‚ pleasures‚ and health-giving qualities. This booklet is for those who want to join that movement. |   | | Walking: The Slower‚ Surer Way to Fitness People walk for many reasons: for pleasure...to rid themselves of tensions...to find solitude...or to get from one place to another. Nearly everyone who walks regularly does so at least in part because of a conviction that

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    The End of Solitude

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    Peace and Quietness? Solitude: The state of being or living alone. Seclusion. Every day of the week hundreds if not thousands of people see me‚ and that’s maybe an understatement. When I say‚ “hundreds if not thousands of people see me‚” I mean like‚ see as in the literal tense. Where my face is looked at‚ examined‚ judged‚ inspected‚ and or… just flat out seen by others. When I mentioned how “that’s maybe an understatement” well that’s true. Just my face‚ or anything physically noticeable about

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    Pleasures of Reading

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    Reading a book is perhaps the greatest source of pleasure to a cultured person. Reading broadens his outlook‚ drives away his narrow prejudices and lightens up his mind with truth and knowledge. Books are our best friends. They never deceive or desert us in our hour of need like so many of our human friends‚ and the advantages once received from the reading of books remain with us throughout our lives. It is a great pleasure for us to read the books of the master minds of the past that have brightened

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    Simple Pleasures

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    When you become a young adult‚ life is never as simple as it used to be. Back in your single-digit ages‚ you have feelings of elation and excitement when holding a crisp ten-dollar bill in your hand. Today‚ it is replaced by discomfort and uneasiness when you find out it’s the only bill you have in your empty wallet. The feeling of enlightenment when learning something new is replaced by irritation when you ask yourself why you didn’t learn it sooner. A mission most children wish to pursue is the

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    Solitude Fatalism

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    [themselves] to the estate in which [their] lot is cast.” Fatalism‚ often associated with predestination‚ is the belief that every event including all actions we as humans partake in are caused by outside forces beyond our control. In One Hundred Years of Solitude‚ Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses irony to reveal how preventing a prediction guarantees its fulfillment. Fatalism‚ as revealed in the novel‚ requires a state of peace of mind which can only be achieved when characters escape active emotional involvement

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