You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using 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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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