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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
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
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
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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Form Hold Image Lost Treasure
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
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
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
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
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
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
Writing only leads to more writing.
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One Liner Poet Writing

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