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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
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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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
We only do well the things we like doing.
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Passionate Work
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
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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Artist Authentic Himself Life Ordinary Time Villain
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Himself Interesting Marriage
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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Himself Time Traveling True
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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