You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEJanuary, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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