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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThat lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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