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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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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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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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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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Collection Myself Personal Solitude Travel Value
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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There are no ordinary cats.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Absence Finding Furnish Myself Ugly
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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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