Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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