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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
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
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
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
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
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Evidence Friendship Love Man Myself True
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
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
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
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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Life Lost Love Myself Past Present Sadness Shame Time
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
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
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself

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