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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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Absence Finding Furnish Myself Ugly
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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Early Insomnia Refuge Stage Suffering Thinking
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Age Forget Grave Old
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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Drugs Excuse Light Male Smoking
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
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.
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Author Criticism Destroy Head Himself Judgement Poet Writing
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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Form Hold Image Lost Treasure
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
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
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Age Alone Bitter Freedom Poison Solitude Wall
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
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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Desperate Flower Image Lose Memories Ourselves
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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Humble Jealous Low Sight
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Anxiety Endurance New Year Ourselves Production Theatre
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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Collection Man Terror Trade Weakness
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
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
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Love Myself Short
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
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Give Up Herself Intelligence Man Right Thinking Woman
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Blue People Wine

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