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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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