My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Hope costs nothing.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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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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