In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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