Colette, ΄Freedom,΄ 1908
French novelist (1873 - 1954)

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.

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