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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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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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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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