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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
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.
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Illusion Moments Need Recovery Waste Young
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
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
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’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
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Give Up Herself Intelligence Man Right Thinking Woman
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
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

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