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1 " I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. "
― Colette , Chéri
2 " Do I have a separate room? Don’t I make love to you well?”She hesitated, smiling with exquisite suspicion. “Do you call that love, Fred?”“There are other words for it, but you wouldn’t appreciate them. "
3 " They looked at each other in open hostility—she, leaning on her elbow in a flurry of frills and lace; he, sitting side-saddle on the edge of the bed. He was thinking ‘Who’s she to talk of any wrinkles I may have one day?’ and she ‘Why is he so ugly when he laughs?—he who’s the very picture of beauty!’ She thought for a moment, then finished aloud: “It’s because you look so ill-natured when you’re joking. You never laugh except unkindly—ᴀᴛ people, and that makes you ugly. You’re often ugly. "
4 " Beautiful? For whom? Why, for myself, of course. "
5 " she was approaching the age when she could indulge in a few creature comforts. She liked order, fine linen, wines in their prime, and carefully planned meals at home. "