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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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Despair Expectation Miracle Myself Willing
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
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
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
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
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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Collection Myself Personal Solitude Travel Value
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
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
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine
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
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
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
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
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Himself Time Traveling True
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Character Husband Marriage Mistake Virtue Wife
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
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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Collection Man Terror Trade Weakness

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