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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA 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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Hope costs nothing.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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