At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Hope costs nothing.
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