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 COLETTEOur perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Hope costs nothing.
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