It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThat lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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