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.
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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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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