If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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