There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThere are no ordinary cats.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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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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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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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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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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