There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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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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