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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
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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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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Astonishment Finding Growth Quick Yourself
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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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Brain Problem Yourself
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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Attachment Casually Myself Mystery People Search
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise

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