"I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me."

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Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Bohumil Hrabal

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