Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI 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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Hope costs nothing.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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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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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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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