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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTELook for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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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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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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