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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
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
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
Writing only leads to more writing.
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One Liner Poet Writing
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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Drugs Excuse Light Male Smoking
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
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

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