Sidonie Gabrielle
Sidonie Gabrielle
born exile fights living tomb
That provisional tomb where the living exile sighs, weeps, fights and succumbs, and is born again, remembering nothing, with the day
half la
How do you like them? like a pear, a lemon, a la Montgolfier, half an apple, or a cantaloupe? Go and choose, don't be embarrassed.
couple dozen help lose pounds
Give me a dozen such heartbreaks, if that would help me lose a couple of pounds
longer pains pleases time
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you
becoming cat risks
By associating with the cat one only risks becoming richer.
cat talk
My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her.
change dream means qualms reality return suffer
For to dream and then to return to reality only means that our qualms suffer a change of place and significance
aside doubt gives grows lay loses stop sudden time writer writers-and-writing
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.
faces sat
Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on
work
Who said you should be happy? Do your work
beauty ease surrounded
We don't feel at ease here: we are surrounded by too much beauty
struggle flower writing
To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.
pride self doubt
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.
brain littles problem
Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.