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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Anxiety Endurance New Year Ourselves Production Theatre
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
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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Age Kind Old Pain Respect Serious Suffering Woman Worth
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Happiness Hurt Observation Pain Self Love Time Yourself
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
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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Collection Man Terror Trade Weakness
There are no ordinary cats.
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Animal Cat Love One Liner Ordinary Pet
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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Book Myself Necessary Presence Reading
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence

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