At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTESmokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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 did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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There 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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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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