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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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Illusion Moments Need Recovery Waste Young
A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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Allow Excitement Finding Human Place Religion Tree
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
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value
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
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
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
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
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
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
Writing only leads to more writing.
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One Liner Poet Writing

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