By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA 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.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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 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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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