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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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Allow Excitement Finding Human Place Religion Tree
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Believe Call Honor Suffering Urgent Wasted Time
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Happiness Work Yourself
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Bad Children Occasional Parents Place Polite
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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Character Honorable Kind Sound Time
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Evidence Friendship Love Man Myself True
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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Despair Expectation Miracle Myself Willing
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
There are no ordinary cats.
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Animal Cat Love One Liner Ordinary Pet
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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Drugs Excuse Light Male Smoking
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Artist Authentic Himself Life Ordinary Time Villain
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
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 COLETTE

Illusion Moments Need Recovery Waste Young
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Astonishment Finding Growth Quick Yourself

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