My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTESmokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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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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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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