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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
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
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
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine
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
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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Astonishment Finding Growth Quick Yourself
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value
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
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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Author Criticism Destroy Head Himself Judgement Poet Writing
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
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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Age Kind Old Pain Respect Serious Suffering Woman Worth
Hope costs nothing.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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 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
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
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
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous

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