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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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