You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThat lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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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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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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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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