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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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Day Distance Finding Myself Separate
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice
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
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
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
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
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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Artist Authentic Himself Life Ordinary Time Villain
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom

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