There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEPerhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Hope costs nothing.
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before 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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