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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Bad Children Occasional Parents Place Polite
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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Despair Expectation Miracle Myself Willing
At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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Cloak Comfortable Dirty Leadership Warm
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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Book Myself Necessary Presence Reading
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
We only do well the things we like doing.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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Attachment Casually Myself Mystery People Search
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Character Honorable Kind Sound Time
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Himself Time Traveling True
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous

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