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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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