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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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