The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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