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| Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Give me a dozen such heartbreaks, if that would help me lose a couple of pounds. 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. It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you. My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. 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. Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree. The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen. There are days when solitude 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. To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine-if you have never visited it-the desolate kingdom where it rules. What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. |
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