No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEDon’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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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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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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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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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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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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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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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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