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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTESit 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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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 its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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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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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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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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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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