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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
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
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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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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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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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Author Criticism Destroy Head Himself Judgement Poet Writing
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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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
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
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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Early Insomnia Refuge Stage Suffering Thinking

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