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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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Attachment Casually Myself Mystery People Search
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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Humble Jealous Low Sight
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
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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Early Insomnia Refuge Stage Suffering Thinking
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
Hope costs nothing.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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 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
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
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
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Gratitude Kindness Prodigy Understand
I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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Collection Myself Personal Solitude Travel Value

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