Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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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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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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