Hope costs nothing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThere 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.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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