It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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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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