I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI 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.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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There are no ordinary cats.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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