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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Perhaps 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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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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