What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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