A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe 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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Hope costs nothing.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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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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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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