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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThere are no ordinary cats.
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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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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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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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