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" A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. "
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Pretty
Weaknesses
Spiders
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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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" 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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" The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. "
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" You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. "
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" A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. "
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" To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. "
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" The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Ashamed
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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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" Total absence of humor renders life impossible. "
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" A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. "
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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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Excuse
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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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" If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles. "
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Too
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" In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. "
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Matter
Find
" 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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" Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. "
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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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" There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. "
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You
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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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" Be happy. It's one way of being wise. "
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" You do not notice changes in what is always before you. "
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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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" Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you. "
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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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" Writing only leads to more writing. "
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