Sidonie Gabrielle
Sidonie Gabrielle
brain littles problem
Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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.
intelligent water use
The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.
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...
wine training world
I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
sleep insomnia thinking
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
mother flower blessed
On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin, and returned full of pride to show my blessed posy. My mother laughed her irreverent laugh and, looking at my bunch of flowers, which was bringing the may-bug into the sitting-room right under the lamp, she said: Do you suppose it wasn't already blessed before?
death determination lying
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.
years age three
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
silence poetic flattering
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
change
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
travel feet goes-on
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
business men spiders
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
women food memorable
If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.