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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
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
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
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
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
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
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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Collection Man Terror Trade Weakness
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
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

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