Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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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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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.
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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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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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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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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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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