I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBooks, 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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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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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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Hope costs nothing.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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