When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIn its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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