I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEWhen she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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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.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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