Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTESit 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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Hope costs nothing.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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 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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