No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIt takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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