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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Himself Time Traveling True
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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Book Myself Necessary Presence Reading
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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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