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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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
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
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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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
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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
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
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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Day Distance Finding Myself Separate
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Gratitude Kindness Prodigy Understand
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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Cloak Comfortable Dirty Leadership Warm
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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