Two Solitudes (novel)

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Two Solitudes is a 1945 novel by Hugh MacLennan. In 1978 it was made into a motion picture, written and directed by Lionel Chetwynd.

The novel's plot evolves around the life and times of the fictional character Paul Tallard and this character's struggles in reconciling the differences between his English and French Canadian identities.

There is only one sentence in the whole novel containing this expression: « Two solitudes in the infinite waste of loneliness under the sun . »