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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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