There are no ordinary cats.

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

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!

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.