In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIf 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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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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