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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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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