The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA 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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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