Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA 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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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