That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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