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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Curiosity Death Finding Grave Lying Side Trying
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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Despair Expectation Miracle Myself Willing
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
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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Character Honorable Kind Sound Time
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Author Criticism Destroy Head Himself Judgement Poet Writing
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Herself Pride Time Virtue
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Happiness Work Yourself
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Happiness Hurt Observation Pain Self Love Time Yourself
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
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Love Myself Short
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Absence Shape Thinking Time True

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