I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe 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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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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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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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