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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
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
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
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
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Bad Children Occasional Parents Place Polite
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Happiness Hurt Observation Pain Self Love Time Yourself
There are no ordinary cats.
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Animal Cat Love One Liner Ordinary Pet
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
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
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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Believe Call Honor Suffering Urgent Wasted Time
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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Born Country Heart Myself Try Unknown
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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Collection Myself Personal Solitude Travel Value

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