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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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Breathe Choice Planet Temptation
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Hope costs nothing.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Bad Children Occasional Parents Place Polite
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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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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Born Country Heart Myself Try Unknown
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
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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice

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