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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBe happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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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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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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