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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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
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
By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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Form Hold Image Lost Treasure
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
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
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
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
There are no ordinary cats.
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Animal Cat Love One Liner Ordinary Pet
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
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
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Character Husband Marriage Mistake Virtue Wife
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
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value

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