My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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Hope costs nothing.
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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