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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEWriting only leads to more writing.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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