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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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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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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 its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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