A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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 are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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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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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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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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