A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of 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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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