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We only do well the things we like doing.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Age: 81 †
Born: 1873
Born: January 28
Died: 1954
Died: August 3
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.
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That lovely voice how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!
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