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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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Author Criticism Destroy Head Himself Judgement Poet Writing
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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Admit Literature Nourishment Sincere
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Himself Time Traveling True
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
Writing only leads to more writing.
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One Liner Poet Writing
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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Day Distance Finding Myself Separate
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Evidence Friendship Love Man Myself True
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
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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Life Lost Love Myself Past Present Sadness Shame Time
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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Allow Excitement Finding Human Place Religion Tree
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself

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