“Alone dwells every man and everyone mocks everyone else, and a deserted island is our pain.”
Albert Cohen (1895–1981) Swiss writer
Le livre de ma mère [The Book of My Mother] (1954)
“But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.”
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