One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIf we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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