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 COLETTE
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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