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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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Breathe Choice Planet Temptation
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
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 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
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
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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Allow Excitement Finding Human Place Religion Tree
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Character Husband Marriage Mistake Virtue Wife
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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Born Country Heart Myself Try Unknown
The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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Herself Pride Time Virtue
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous

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