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 COLETTEAt 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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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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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