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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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