If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIf he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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 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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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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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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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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