At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEWhen she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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