I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEDon’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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