The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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