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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThat lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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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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I 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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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 is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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.
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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 he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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