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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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Despair Expectation Miracle Myself Willing
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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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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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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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Collection Man Terror Trade Weakness
Writing only leads to more writing.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Curiosity Death Finding Grave Lying Side Trying
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 true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Himself Time Traveling True
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True

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