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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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Hope costs nothing.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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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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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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