Writing only leads to more writing.
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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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