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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
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
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
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
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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Artist Authentic Himself Life Ordinary Time Villain
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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Appetite Myself Professional Training World
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Character Husband Marriage Mistake Virtue Wife
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
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
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
There are no ordinary cats.
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Animal Cat Love One Liner Ordinary Pet
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself

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