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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Anxiety Endurance New Year Ourselves Production Theatre
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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Born Country Heart Myself Try Unknown
Writing only leads to more writing.
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One Liner Poet Writing
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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Age Kind Old Pain Respect Serious Suffering Woman Worth
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
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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Book Myself Necessary Presence Reading
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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Artist Authentic Himself Life Ordinary Time Villain
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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Collection Myself Personal Solitude Travel Value
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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Desperate Flower Image Lose Memories Ourselves
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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Form Hold Image Lost Treasure
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
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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Early Insomnia Refuge Stage Suffering Thinking
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
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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Attachment Casually Myself Mystery People Search
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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Astonishment Finding Growth Quick Yourself
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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Believe Call Honor Suffering Urgent Wasted Time
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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Collection Man Terror Trade Weakness

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