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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.

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
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Evidence Friendship Love Man Myself True
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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Humble Jealous Low Sight
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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Curiosity Death Finding Grave Lying Side Trying
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
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
A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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Allow Excitement Finding Human Place Religion Tree
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Happiness Hurt Observation Pain Self Love Time Yourself
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
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
There are no ordinary cats.
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Animal Cat Love One Liner Ordinary Pet
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
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

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