At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI’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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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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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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Books, 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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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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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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