Justine Picardie Quotes

#1. Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel

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#2. Smiling is not a duty, but a freedom. It's up to you now; you are liberated from the expectations and conformities of youth.

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#3. But I've wept so much,' she said to Delay. 'Now I don't cry any more. When you don't cry it's because you no longer believe in happiness.

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#4. As if you can measure literary excellence with precise instruments; as if there were a science of writing, governed by equations that reveal immutable truths.

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#5. There are times in one's life when a good book - the right book -
feels like a voice speaking in the darkness,
reaching out from the past;
providing solace when all else seems lost.

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#6. And yes, I confess, when I looked at him, I thought of Heathcliff and Mr Rochester and Maxim de Winter ... and how could I not, when I had been waiting for them to step out of the pages of the books I loved; when I knew them so well, read them inside out and into myself?

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