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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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Allow Excitement Finding Human Place Religion Tree
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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