Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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A 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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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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