January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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