You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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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.
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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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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 want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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