If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI 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.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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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.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Hope costs nothing.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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