Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI 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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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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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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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