Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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