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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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Illusion Moments Need Recovery Waste Young
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
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
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
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
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
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
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
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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Book Myself Necessary Presence Reading
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Happiness Hurt Observation Pain Self Love Time Yourself
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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Author Criticism Destroy Head Himself Judgement Poet Writing

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