By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEHope costs nothing.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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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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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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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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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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