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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEHope costs nothing.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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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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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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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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