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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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Artist Authentic Himself Life Ordinary Time Villain
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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Life Lost Love Myself Past Present Sadness Shame Time
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
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
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
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
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
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
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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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
So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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Despair Expectation Miracle Myself Willing
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

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