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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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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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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.
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