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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Change Notice Yourself
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
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
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Character Husband Marriage Mistake Virtue Wife
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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Age Kind Old Pain Respect Serious Suffering Woman Worth
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
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
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
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
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Bad Children Occasional Parents Place Polite
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
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
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True

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