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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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 connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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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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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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