If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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 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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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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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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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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