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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Hope costs nothing.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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