There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIt is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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