There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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