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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
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
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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Breathe Choice Planet Temptation
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
There are no ordinary cats.
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Animal Cat Love One Liner Ordinary Pet
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
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
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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Age Alone Bitter Freedom Poison Solitude Wall
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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Drugs Excuse Light Male Smoking
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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Humble Jealous Low Sight
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
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
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

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