“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
"Self-Portrait" (1936), p. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=Q1UxYzuI2oQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">1950s, Out of My Later Years (1950) <br class="br">Variant: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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