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I think one can be content being alone. That is, comfortable without the company or intimacy of others.
Being lonely, however, carries a meaning of discontent with one's current level of companionship OR "alone"ness... I mean, I think it's obvious that people can be dissatisfied with living alone, sleeping alone, etc. But a related, and more hidden loneliness happens even when surrounded by a marriage and kids, because one becomes even more self-conscious of the lack of intimacy in a situation that is supposed to be intimate.
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And think not you can direct the course of Love;
for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
--Khalil Gibran
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