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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Hope costs nothing.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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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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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself
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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