Sidonie Gabrielle
Sidonie Gabrielle
cat talk
My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her.
becoming cat risks
By associating with the cat one only risks becoming richer.
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The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree.
cat animal pet
There are no ordinary cats.
cat solitude resolve
I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
dog cat animal
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
lying cat long
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
time cat funny-cat
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
work
Who said you should be happy? Do your work
beauty ease surrounded
We don't feel at ease here: we are surrounded by too much beauty
couple dozen help lose pounds
Give me a dozen such heartbreaks, if that would help me lose a couple of pounds
faces sat
Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on
born exile fights living tomb
That provisional tomb where the living exile sighs, weeps, fights and succumbs, and is born again, remembering nothing, with the day