You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe 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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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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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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.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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