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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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
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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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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Author Criticism Destroy Head Himself Judgement Poet Writing
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Gratitude Kindness Prodigy Understand
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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