I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIt takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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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.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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