The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI 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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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.
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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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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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