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We only do well the things we like doing.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Absence Finding Furnish Myself Ugly
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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Born Country Heart Myself Try Unknown
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Bad Children Occasional Parents Place Polite
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
Hope costs nothing.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
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
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’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
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
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
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice
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

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