A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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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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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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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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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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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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