A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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 is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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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.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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