January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI 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 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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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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