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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEAt 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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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