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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEDon’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Hope costs nothing.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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