Hope costs nothing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEWhat a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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