That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI 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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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.
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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 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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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.
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Hope costs nothing.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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