You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEAs for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Hope costs nothing.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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