“There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.”

Freedom (1908)
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1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi 1873–1954

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