Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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Books, 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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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