It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThere are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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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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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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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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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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 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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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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