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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEJanuary, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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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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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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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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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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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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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 am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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