Hope costs nothing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe 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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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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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 lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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