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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Writing only leads to more writing.
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One Liner Poet Writing
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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Day Distance Finding Myself Separate
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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Curiosity Death Finding Grave Lying Side Trying
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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Astonishment Finding Growth Quick Yourself
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
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 is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
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
Hope costs nothing.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
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

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