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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIt is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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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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