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 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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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