A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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.

SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.

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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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Anxiety Production Theatre
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Contact
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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Early Insomnia Refuge Stage
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.

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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.
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Sadness
A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.

SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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Modesty Spontaneous
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Flattery Oneself
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.

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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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We only do well the things we like doing.

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We only do well the things we like doing.
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There are no ordinary cats.

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There are no ordinary cats.
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Ordinary Pet
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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Authentic Ordinary
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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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.

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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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Appetite
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.

SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

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 want nothing from love, in short, but love.

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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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