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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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Collection Myself Personal Solitude Travel Value
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
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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Breathe Choice Planet Temptation
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 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
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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Author Criticism Destroy Head Himself Judgement Poet Writing
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time 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
I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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Born Country Heart Myself Try Unknown

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