In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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If 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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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