“In my solitude I sing to myself a sweet lullaby, as sweet as my mother used to sing to me.”
Albert Cohen (1895–1981) Swiss writer
Le livre de ma mère [The Book of My Mother] (1954)
“I praise the Frenchman [Voltaire], his remark was shrewd —
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!
But grant me still a friend in my retreat
Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet.”
Source: Retirement (1782), Line 739.
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