In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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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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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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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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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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