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„Dokonalí spoločníci nikdy nemajú menej ako štyri nohy“

„Milujem svoju minulosť. Milujem svoju prítomnosť. Nehanbím sa za to, čo som mala, a nie som smutná, že som to stratila.“

„Určite spravíte hlúpe veci, ale spravte ich s nadšením.“

„Žiarlivosť je vlastne násilie, ktorého obeťou je láska.“

„Čas strávený s mačkou nie je nikdy premárnený.“

„Žena je ako mačka: obe prinútite, aby robili len to, čo sami chcú.“

„Žena, ktorá sa považuje za inteligentnú, sa domáha rovnosti s mužmi. Skutočne inteligentná žena to nerobí.“

„Zamilovaná žena radšej obetuje svoju dobrú povesť, ako svoje ideály o milencov.“

„Žena uchová tajomstvo, ak jej nepoviete, že je to tajomstvo.“

„Ženy sa obliekajú, aby vyvolali obdiv mužov a závisť žien.“

„Len čo sa muž začne voči žene správať smiešne, vie sa, že to myslí vážne.“

„Muži pri flirtovaní nezriedka bežia za ženou, ktorá naháňa ich.“

„Muži si nás neberú, my mužom pomáhame, aby si nás vzali.“

„Po víkende s mužom sú mnohé ženy smutné, že sa niečo stalo. Ale ešte viac ich je smutných preto, že sa nič nestalo.“

„Pri flirte sa muži naháňajú za ženou, ktorá je im už dávno v pätách.“

„Spokojnosť je formou múdrosti.“

„Ak nemá človek to, čo miluje, musí milovať to, čo má.“

„Srdce nemá vrások, bývajú na ňom iba jazvy.“

„Nádej nič nestojí.“

„Buďte šťastní. Je to určitý druh múdrosti.“

„Keď zdvihne viečka, povedali by ste, že sa zoblieka.“

„Láska je tornádo, priateľstvo je neustále vanúci pasát.“

„Maximálnou láskou k človeku je trpezlivosť s ním.“

„Niet nevyliečiteľnej bolesti okrem smrti.“

„O chybách toho, ktorého milujeme, si myslíme, že by sme ho nemohli milovať, keby ich nemal.“

„Objavoval svet citov, ktoré sa nadnesene nazývajú fyzickými.“

„Román o láske nepíšeme vtedy, keď sa milujeme.“

„Slobodné ženy nie sú ženy.“

„Totálna absencia humoru robí život nemožným.“

„Žena sa môže hlásiť k toľkým rodným krajom, koľko mala šťastných lások.“

„Žena, ktorá zostane ženou, je dokonalá bytosť.“

„Ženy by sa ľahšie zmierili s tým, že muž prichádza domov neskoršie, keby sa naozaj mohli spoľahnúť na to, že nepríde skôr.“

“If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.”

“I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.”

“I want nothing from love, in short, but love.”

“To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.”

“I have found my voice again and the art of using it…”

“To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.”

“Then, bidding farewell to The Knick-Knack, I went to collect the few personal belongings which, at that time, I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”

“If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles”

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

“But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men… nine men out of ten are superstitious, nineteen out of twenty believe in the evil eye, and ninety-eight out of a hundred are afraid of spiders. They forgive us — oh! for many things, but not for the absence in us of their own feelings.”

“By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.”

“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.””

“It’s nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.”

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

“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.”

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

“As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.”

“Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken.”

“It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.”

“Kiki-The-Demure: Once when I was little She tried to give me castor oil. I scratched and bit her so, she never tried again. Ha! She must have thought she held the devil between her knees. I squirmed, blew fire through my nostrils, multiplied my twenty claws by a hundred, my teeth by one thousand, and finally — disappeared as if by magic.
Toby-Dog: I wouldn't dare do that. You see, I love her. I love her enough to forgive her even the torture of the bath.”

“Don’t ever wear artistic jewellry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.”

“It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.”

“The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.”

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

“Humility has its origin in an awareness of unworthiness, and sometimes too in a dazzled awareness of saintliness.”