When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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