If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThere 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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their 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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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