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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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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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Book Myself Necessary Presence Reading
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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
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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Hope costs nothing.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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