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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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 want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
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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Herself Pride Time Virtue
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
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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Breathe Choice Planet Temptation
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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Admit Literature Nourishment Sincere
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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Despair Expectation Miracle Myself Willing
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice

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