I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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