I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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