I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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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 do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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