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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous

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