Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThat lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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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 don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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I 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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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