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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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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Age Kind Old Pain Respect Serious Suffering Woman Worth
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Character Husband Marriage Mistake Virtue Wife
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
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
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
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
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
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
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
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value

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