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„Humility has its origin in an awareness of unworthiness, and sometimes too in a dazzled awareness of saintliness.“
„You do not notice changes in what is always before you.“
„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.“
„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.“
„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.“
„A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men… nine men out of ten are superstitious, nineteen out of twenty believe in the evil eye, and ninety-eight out of a hundred are afraid of spiders. They forgive us — oh! for many things, but not for the absence in us of their own feelings.“
„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 shrivelled innocence of an old maid?“
„What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!“
„By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.“
„Boredom helps one to make decisions.“
„Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: “It’s four o’clock … At five I have my abyss.”“
„It’s nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.“
„My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.“
„Her childhood, then her adolescence, had taught her patience, hope, silence and the easy manipulation of the weapons and virtues of all prisoners.“
„Kiki-The-Demure: Once when I was little She tried to give me castor oil. I scratched and bit her so, she never tried again. Ha! She must have thought she held the devil between her knees. I squirmed, blew fire through my nostrils, multiplied my twenty claws by a hundred, my teeth by one thousand, and finally — disappeared as if by magic.Toby-Dog: I wouldn’t dare do that. You see, I love her. I love her enough to forgive her even the torture of the bath.“
„It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.“
„We only do well the things we like doing.“
„The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.“
„In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.“
„The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.“
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