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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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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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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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