It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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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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