At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThere are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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A 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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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