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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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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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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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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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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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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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