It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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