“ 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 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 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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“ One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. ”
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“ Friendship, which is of its nature a delicate thing, fastidious, slow of growth, is easily checked, will hesitate, demur, recoil where love, good old blustering love, bowls ahead and blunders through every obstacle. ”
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“ To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. ”
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“ Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. ”
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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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“ No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. ”
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“ Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl. ”
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“ Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid? ”
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“ One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. ”
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“ It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses. ”
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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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“ 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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“ Girls usually have a paper mache face on their wedding day. ”
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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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“ 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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“ It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. ”
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“ The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree. ”
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“ But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious. ”
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“ The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree. ”
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“ The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree. ”
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“ Shall we never have done with that cliche, so stupid that it could only be human, about the sympathy of animals for man when he is unhappy? Animals love happiness almost as much as we do. A fit of crying disturbs them, they'll sometimes imitate sobbing, and for a moment they'll reflect our sadness… ”
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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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“ 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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“ What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised! ”
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