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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBooks, 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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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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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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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