You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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