What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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