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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
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
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
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
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
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
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
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 connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Gratitude Kindness Prodigy Understand

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