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 COLETTESo 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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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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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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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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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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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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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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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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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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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