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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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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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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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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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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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