Sidonie Gabrielle
Sidonie Gabrielle
flower modesty sincerity
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
butterfly butterfly-wings wings
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
husband wife faults
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
friendship best-friend wise
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
sleep insomnia thinking
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
evil theatre months
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
failure light glowing
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
women food memorable
If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
negativity despair routine
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss...
pain men suffering
Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
voice joy lovely
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
time cat funny-cat
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
wall wine being-alone
There are days when solitude 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.
want
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.