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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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Allow Excitement Finding Human Place Religion Tree
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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Life Lost Love Myself Past Present Sadness Shame Time
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Absence Shape Thinking Time True
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
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Fingers Touch Yourself
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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Age Kind Old Pain Respect Serious Suffering Woman Worth
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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Believe Call Honor Suffering Urgent Wasted Time
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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Collection Myself Personal Solitude Travel 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.
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Curiosity Death Finding Grave Lying Side Trying
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Happiness Work Yourself
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Life Myself Realize Wonderful
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
Writing only leads to more writing.
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One Liner Poet Writing
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

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