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beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Age: 81 †
Born: 1873
Born: January 28
Died: 1954
Died: August 3
Actor
Ghostwriter
Journalist
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Playwright
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Screenwriter
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Montagne-sur-Loing
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Hope costs nothing.
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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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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- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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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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If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
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