Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEAs 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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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