I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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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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