Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIt takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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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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