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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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Appetite Myself Professional Training World
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
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
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
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
Writing only leads to more writing.
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One Liner Poet Writing
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
Hope costs nothing.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
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
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
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
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value

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