If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEAt sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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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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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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