It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEWhen she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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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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