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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
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
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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Breathe Choice Planet Temptation
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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
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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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Illusion Moments Need Recovery Waste Young
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Evidence Friendship Love Man Myself True
We only do well the things we like doing.
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