The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTESincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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