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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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Cloak Comfortable Dirty Leadership Warm
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
Hope costs nothing.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
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
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
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
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
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine
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
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
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
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
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection

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