One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBy 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.
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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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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.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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