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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude. - [Animals] Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on. - [Dogs] By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet. - [Loss] For to dream and then to return to reality only means that our qualms suffer a change of place and significance. - [Dreams] Give me a dozen such heartbreaks, if that would help me lose a couple of pounds. - [Diet] Hope costs nothing. - [Hope] In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. - [Insomnia] No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. - [Temptation] Real poverty is lack of books. - [Books] That provisional tomb where the living exile sighs, weeps, fights and succumbs, and is born again, remembering nothing, with the day. - [Sleep] The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before. - [Matrimony] Time spent with cats is never wasted. - [Cats] Total absence of humor renders life impossible. - [Humor] We only do well the things we like doing. - [Doing] You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - [Enthusiasm] What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised! - Earthly Paradise: An Autobiography [Friendship]
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