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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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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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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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Hope costs nothing.
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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 true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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