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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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
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
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
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
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
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
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
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
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
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

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