Writing only leads to more writing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI 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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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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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