You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBooks, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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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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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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