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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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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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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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