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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIf he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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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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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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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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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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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