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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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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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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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