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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
Hope costs nothing.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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Curiosity Death Finding Grave Lying Side Trying
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
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Himself Time Traveling True
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
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
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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Early Insomnia Refuge Stage Suffering Thinking
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
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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Attachment Casually Myself Mystery People Search
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value

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