By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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Hope costs nothing.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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