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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEHope costs nothing.
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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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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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Hope costs nothing.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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