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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEHope costs nothing.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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