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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

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.

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.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.