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 COLETTEIn its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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