I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIt takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Hope costs nothing.
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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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