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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Life Myself Realize Wonderful
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
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
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
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
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
There are no ordinary cats.
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Animal Cat Love One Liner Ordinary Pet
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
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
I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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Born Country Heart Myself Try Unknown
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
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

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