Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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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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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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I 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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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