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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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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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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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