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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Gratitude Kindness Prodigy Understand
By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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Desperate Flower Image Lose Memories Ourselves
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
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Absence Finding Furnish Myself Ugly
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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
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
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
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
There are no ordinary cats.
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Animal Cat Love One Liner Ordinary Pet
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
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning

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