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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Age Forget Grave Old
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
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
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Character Husband Marriage Mistake Virtue Wife
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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Admit Literature Nourishment Sincere
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
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
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
I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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Appetite Myself Professional Training World
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
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
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
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
There are no ordinary cats.
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Animal Cat Love One Liner Ordinary Pet
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
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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Curiosity Death Finding Grave Lying Side Trying
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
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
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

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