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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
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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Age Alone Bitter Freedom Poison Solitude Wall
I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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Attachment Casually Myself Mystery People Search
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
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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Desperate Flower Image Lose Memories Ourselves
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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Age Kind Old Pain Respect Serious Suffering Woman Worth
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
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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Author Criticism Destroy Head Himself Judgement Poet Writing
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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Character Honorable Kind Sound Time
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Bad Children Occasional Parents Place Polite
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Himself Time Traveling True
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Character Husband Marriage Mistake Virtue Wife

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