By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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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 connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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