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 COLETTEPerhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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Hope costs nothing.
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