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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEOne keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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The 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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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Hope costs nothing.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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