Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThere are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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