I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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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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