It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIs 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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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