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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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Author Criticism Destroy Head Himself Judgement Poet Writing
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Evidence Friendship Love Man Myself True
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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Collection Man Terror Trade Weakness
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Himself Time Traveling True
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Bad Children Occasional Parents Place Polite
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Anxiety Endurance New Year Ourselves Production Theatre
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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Breathe Choice Planet Temptation
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
Hope costs nothing.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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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Collection Myself Personal Solitude Travel Value
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Character Husband Marriage Mistake Virtue Wife
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
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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Illusion Moments Need Recovery Waste Young
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
There are no ordinary cats.
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Animal Cat Love One Liner Ordinary Pet
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
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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Life Lost Love Myself Past Present Sadness Shame Time
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
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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Age Kind Old Pain Respect Serious Suffering Woman Worth
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
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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Herself Pride Time Virtue
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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Admit Literature Nourishment Sincere

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