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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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 want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Hope costs nothing.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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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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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
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
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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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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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
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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