When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIt takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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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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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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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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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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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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