A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTENever touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have 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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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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