At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIf 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.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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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 takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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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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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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