Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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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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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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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.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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 one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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