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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIs 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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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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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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