You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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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.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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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 wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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