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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
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
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
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
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Gratitude Kindness Prodigy Understand
By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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Form Hold Image Lost Treasure
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
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
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Evidence Friendship Love Man Myself True

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