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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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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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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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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
We only do well the things we like doing.
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