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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Gratitude Kindness Prodigy Understand
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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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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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
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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Character Honorable Kind Sound Time
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
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
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
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time 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

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