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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Hope costs nothing.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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.
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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