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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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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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Herself Pride Time Virtue
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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Life Lost Love Myself Past Present Sadness Shame Time
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
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
At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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Cloak Comfortable Dirty Leadership Warm
Hope costs nothing.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
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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Curiosity Death Finding Grave Lying Side Trying
So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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Despair Expectation Miracle Myself Willing
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Gratitude Kindness Prodigy Understand
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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Day Distance Finding Myself Separate
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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Humble Jealous Low Sight
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
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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Admit Literature Nourishment Sincere
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
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
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Give Up Herself Intelligence Man Right Thinking Woman
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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Astonishment Finding Growth Quick Yourself
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
There are no ordinary cats.
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Animal Cat Love One Liner Ordinary Pet

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