No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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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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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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