Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI 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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Hope costs nothing.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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