I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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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.
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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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The 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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