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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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