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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem 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
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
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
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
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
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’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
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Early Insomnia Refuge Stage Suffering Thinking
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice 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
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

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