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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
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
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
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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Breathe Choice Planet Temptation
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
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
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Evidence Friendship Love Man Myself True
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
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
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
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Admit Literature Nourishment Sincere
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
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Give Up Herself Intelligence Man Right Thinking Woman

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