It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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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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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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