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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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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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I 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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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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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