I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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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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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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