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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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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 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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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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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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