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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
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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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
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine
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
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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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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Desperate Flower Image Lose Memories Ourselves

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