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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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Companion Ourselves Perfection
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
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
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Form Hold Image Lost Treasure
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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Illusion Moments Need Recovery Waste Young
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
Writing only leads to more writing.
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One Liner Poet Writing
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Measurement Object Temptation Value
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
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
I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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Appetite Myself Professional Training World
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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Admit Literature Nourishment Sincere
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous

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