Writing only leads to more writing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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