One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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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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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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