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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBy 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.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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I 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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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