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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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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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