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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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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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Author Criticism Destroy Head Himself Judgement Poet Writing
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.
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Desperate Flower Image Lose Memories Ourselves
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
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
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
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
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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