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.
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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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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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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