A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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Hope costs nothing.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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 don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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