Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTESmokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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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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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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