No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Hope costs nothing.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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