No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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