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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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Believe Call Honor Suffering Urgent Wasted Time
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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Herself Pride Time Virtue
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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Day Distance Finding Myself Separate
Hope costs nothing.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Give Up Herself Intelligence Man Right Thinking Woman
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Evidence Friendship Love Man Myself True
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice
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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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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Artist Authentic Himself Life Ordinary Time Villain
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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Humble Jealous Low Sight
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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