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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBy 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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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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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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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