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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Hope costs nothing.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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 kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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