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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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Appetite Myself Professional Training World
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
Writing only leads to more writing.
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One Liner Poet Writing
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
There are no ordinary cats.
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Animal Cat Love One Liner Ordinary Pet
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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Believe Call Honor Suffering Urgent Wasted Time
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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Artist Authentic Himself Life Ordinary Time Villain
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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Author Criticism Destroy Head Himself Judgement Poet Writing
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
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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Life Lost Love Myself Past Present Sadness Shame Time
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Happiness Hurt Observation Pain Self Love Time Yourself
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
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
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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Age Alone Bitter Freedom Poison Solitude Wall
I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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Born Country Heart Myself Try Unknown
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

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