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We only do well the things we like doing.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
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
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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Despair Expectation Miracle Myself Willing
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
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself
Hope costs nothing.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
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
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Gratitude Kindness Prodigy Understand

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