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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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Drugs Excuse Light Male Smoking
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
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.
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Illusion Moments Need Recovery Waste Young
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Bad Children Occasional Parents Place Polite
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.
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Life Lost Love Myself Past Present Sadness Shame Time
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
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.
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Day Distance Finding Myself Separate
Writing only leads to more writing.
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One Liner Poet Writing
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
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short

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