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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEWriting only leads to more writing.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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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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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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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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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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