In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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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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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Hope costs nothing.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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