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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTETime spent with a cat is never wasted.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Hope costs nothing.
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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