Sidonie Gabrielle
Sidonie Gabrielle
love sad broken-heart
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.
temptation tempted objects
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
fall sleep cutting
Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph. . . . Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?
wine blue connoisseur
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
writing
Writing only leads to more writing.
cat solitude resolve
I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
art voice found
I have found my voice again and the art of using it...
love sad past
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
want
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
dog cat animal
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
time shapes assuming
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
loss bouquets treasure
By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
lying cat long
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
love jealous smell
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.