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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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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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Early Insomnia Refuge Stage Suffering Thinking
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 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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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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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