Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTESit 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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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