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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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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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Hope costs nothing.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Anxiety Endurance New Year Ourselves Production Theatre
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
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
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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Allow Excitement Finding Human Place Religion Tree
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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Book Myself Necessary Presence Reading
I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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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
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

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