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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEAs 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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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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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Hope costs nothing.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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