Writing only leads to more writing.
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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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 woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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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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