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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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