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| Colette
... 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. A bed, a nice fresh bed, with smoothly drawn sheets and a hot water bottle
at the end of it, soft to the feet like a live animal's tummy.Give me a dozen such heart-breaks, if that would
help me to lose a couple of pounds.
How can one help shivering with delight when one's hot fingers close
around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade, and stiff with
newborn vigor.I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. - The Last of CheriIf I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. Life is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers.Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.Poetry does not necessarily have to be beautiful to stick in the depths of our memory.Solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom. The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. There are no ordinary cats.There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.Time spent with cats is never wasted.What a delight it is to make friends with someone
you have despised.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. You'll understand later that one keeps on forgetting
old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Your truffles must come to the table in their own stock... And as you
break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine--if
you have never visited it--the desolate kingdom where it rules. For it
kills the dog rose, drains life from the oak, ripens beneath an
ungrateful bed of pebbles.
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