When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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