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.
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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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