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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
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
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
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
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
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
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
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
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.
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Age Alone Bitter Freedom Poison Solitude Wall
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
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
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
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
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
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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Illusion Moments Need Recovery Waste Young
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
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
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
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Give Up Herself Intelligence Man Right Thinking Woman
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value
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
Writing only leads to more writing.
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One Liner Poet Writing

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