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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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There are no ordinary cats.
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Animal Cat Love One Liner Ordinary Pet
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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Admit Literature Nourishment Sincere
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Character Husband Marriage Mistake Virtue Wife
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
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Absence Finding Furnish Myself Ugly
I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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Collection Myself Personal Solitude Travel Value
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
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.
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Character Honorable Kind Sound Time
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

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