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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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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
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
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Give Up Herself Intelligence Man Right Thinking Woman
Hope costs nothing.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Character Husband Marriage Mistake Virtue Wife
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
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
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
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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Herself Pride Time Virtue
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
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

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