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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value
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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Cloak Comfortable Dirty Leadership Warm
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
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
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
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.
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Life Lost Love Myself Past Present Sadness Shame Time
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
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous

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