You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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