To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIt is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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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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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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