Sidonie Gabrielle
Sidonie Gabrielle
change dream means qualms reality return suffer
For to dream and then to return to reality only means that our qualms suffer a change of place and significance
aside doubt gives grows lay loses stop sudden time writer writers-and-writing
The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
cat talk
My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her.
work
Who said you should be happy? Do your work
beauty ease surrounded
We don't feel at ease here: we are surrounded by too much beauty
couple dozen help lose pounds
Give me a dozen such heartbreaks, if that would help me lose a couple of pounds
faces sat
Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on
born exile fights living tomb
That provisional tomb where the living exile sighs, weeps, fights and succumbs, and is born again, remembering nothing, with the day
delight despised
What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised
longer pains pleases time
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you
becoming cat risks
By associating with the cat one only risks becoming richer.
half la
How do you like them? like a pear, a lemon, a la Montgolfier, half an apple, or a cantaloupe? Go and choose, don't be embarrassed.
animal biggest borrowed cat creator delicate gave mobile supremely whom
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.
demands equal french-novelist rights thinks
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.