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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTETotal absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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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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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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