A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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