an honorable pact with solitude

"The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude."
--from "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967) By Gabriel García Márquez

《老年之書：思我生命之旅 》The Oxford Book of Aging： Reflections on the Journey of Life

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