It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI 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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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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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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