So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTESmokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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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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