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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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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.
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Astonishment Finding Growth Quick Yourself
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value
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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Age Alone Bitter Freedom Poison Solitude Wall
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
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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Early Insomnia Refuge Stage Suffering Thinking
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
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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Author Criticism Destroy Head Himself Judgement Poet Writing
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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Believe Call Honor Suffering Urgent Wasted Time
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice
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

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