If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTETotal absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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The 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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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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