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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBy an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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 want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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