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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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Curiosity Death Finding Grave Lying Side Trying
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
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
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
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
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
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself
I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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Attachment Casually Myself Mystery People Search
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Character Husband Marriage Mistake Virtue Wife
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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Age Alone Bitter Freedom Poison Solitude Wall
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old

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