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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Give Up Herself Intelligence Man Right Thinking Woman
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
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
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
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
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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Humble Jealous Low Sight
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
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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Drugs Excuse Light Male Smoking
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Absence Finding Furnish Myself Ugly
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
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
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
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
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Gratitude Kindness Prodigy Understand
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
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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Admit Literature Nourishment Sincere
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
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
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

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