Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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 want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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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 have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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