I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThere are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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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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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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