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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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