At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Hope costs nothing.
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