That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBooks, 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.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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 kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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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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