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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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Despair Expectation Miracle Myself Willing
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Evidence Friendship Love Man Myself True
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Character Husband Marriage Mistake Virtue Wife
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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Age Kind Old Pain Respect Serious Suffering Woman Worth
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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Collection Man Terror Trade Weakness
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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Form Hold Image Lost Treasure
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, 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.
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Age Alone Bitter Freedom Poison Solitude Wall
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.
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Artist Authentic Himself Life Ordinary Time Villain

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