That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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