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GAMSAT Section 2 quote prompts: Solitude

1 GAMSAT-style prompt on solitude. Each gives you five comments that disagree, so your job is to find the tension and argue a clear position. Give yourself about 30 minutes per essay.

Task B · ReflectivePrompt 1 of 1

Consider the following comments on solitude.

  • I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

    Henry David Thoreau

  • Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

    May Sarton

  • All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

    Blaise Pascal

  • We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone.

    Orson Welles

Write a reflective piece in response to one or more of these comments. Your essay will be assessed on the quality of your thinking and the way you express it.

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