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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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.
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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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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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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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As 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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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