What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Hope costs nothing.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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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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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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