Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTETotal absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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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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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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