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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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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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