If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTESmokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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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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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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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