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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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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
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
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.
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Character Honorable Kind Sound Time
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
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
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
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
I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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