We only do well the things we like doing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThere are no ordinary cats.
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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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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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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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