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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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
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
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
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
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
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
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
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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Character Honorable Kind Sound Time
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Character Husband Marriage Mistake Virtue Wife
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
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence

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