I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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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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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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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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At 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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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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I 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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Hope costs nothing.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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