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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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Despair Expectation Miracle Myself Willing
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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Believe Call Honor Suffering Urgent Wasted Time
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
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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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Hope costs nothing.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
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
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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Admit Literature Nourishment Sincere
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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
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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
There are no ordinary cats.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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