Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEPerhaps 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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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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 have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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