What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBooks, 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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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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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Hope costs nothing.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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