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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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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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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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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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Astonishment Finding Growth Quick Yourself
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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