It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEMy true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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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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