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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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
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
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
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
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
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Absence Finding Furnish Myself Ugly
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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