The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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 believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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