Sidonie Gabrielle
Sidonie Gabrielle
years age growing
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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.
happiness happy wise
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
inspirational teacher appreciation
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
time cat funny-cat
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
writing judging down-and
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
beautiful girl fashion
Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.
family children parenting
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
sex clothes sensual
When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
dream unknown-worlds two
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.