To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Hope costs nothing.
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