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.
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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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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 have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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