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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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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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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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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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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Despair Expectation Miracle Myself Willing
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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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
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 not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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