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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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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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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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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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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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Day Distance Finding Myself Separate
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
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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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Absence Finding Furnish Myself Ugly
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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