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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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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 its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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