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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
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
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Give Up Herself Intelligence Man Right Thinking Woman
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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Drugs Excuse Light Male Smoking
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine
At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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Cloak Comfortable Dirty Leadership Warm
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
I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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Attachment Casually Myself Mystery People Search
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Absence Finding Furnish Myself Ugly
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
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
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
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
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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Collection Myself Personal Solitude Travel Value
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
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
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
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself

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