Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIt is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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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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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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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 takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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.
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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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