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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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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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Admit Literature Nourishment Sincere
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Anxiety Endurance New Year Ourselves Production Theatre
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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Astonishment Finding Growth Quick Yourself
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
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
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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Collection Man Terror Trade Weakness
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Gratitude Kindness Prodigy Understand
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise

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