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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I 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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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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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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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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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 temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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