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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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