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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Himself Time Traveling True
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Happiness Hurt Observation Pain Self Love Time Yourself
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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
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
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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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
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
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
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Gratitude Kindness Prodigy Understand
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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