January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI 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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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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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Hope costs nothing.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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