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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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Appetite Myself Professional Training World
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
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
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
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
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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Early Insomnia Refuge Stage Suffering Thinking
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work 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
I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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Attachment Casually Myself Mystery People Search
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
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
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

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