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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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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
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
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
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
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
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine
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
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
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
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself

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