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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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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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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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