A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEWriting only leads to more writing.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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 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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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