When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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