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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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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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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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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.
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