You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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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.
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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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