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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
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
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
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
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
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
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
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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Allow Excitement Finding Human Place Religion Tree
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
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
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.
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Admit Literature Nourishment Sincere
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old

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