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.
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.
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.
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
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.
Writing only leads to more writing.
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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.
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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.
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
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.
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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.
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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.
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Girls usually have a paper mGchT face on their wedding day.
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.
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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