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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Hope costs nothing.
There are no ordinary cats.
Writing only leads to more writing.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
We only do well the things we like doing.
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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.
