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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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Age Kind Old Pain Respect Serious Suffering Woman Worth
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
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
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
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
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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Believe Call Honor Suffering Urgent Wasted Time
Hope costs nothing.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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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Astonishment Finding Growth Quick Yourself
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value
Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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Book Myself Necessary Presence Reading
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
Writing only leads to more writing.
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One Liner Poet Writing
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice

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