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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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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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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