At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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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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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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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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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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