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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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 want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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