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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.

— Colette Mes Apprentissages (1936)

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

New York World-Telegram and Sun (1961)

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Break of Day (1928)

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Paris From My Window (1944)

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

The world of the emotions that we so lightly call physical.

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