If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThat lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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