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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI 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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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