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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Absence Finding Furnish Myself Ugly
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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