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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe 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 temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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