A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIf we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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