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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.

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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Evidence Friendship Love Man Myself True
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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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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Day Distance Finding Myself Separate
I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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Born Country Heart Myself Try Unknown
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Happiness Hurt Observation Pain Self Love Time Yourself
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Happiness Oneself Wisdom
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 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
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous

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