You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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