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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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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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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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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