My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTENo temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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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.
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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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