A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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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 temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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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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