You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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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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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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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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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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