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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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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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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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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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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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