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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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
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 believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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Believe Call Honor Suffering Urgent Wasted Time
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
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
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
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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Humble Jealous Low Sight
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
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
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
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
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Art Finding Myself Voice
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself

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