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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Book Myself Necessary Presence Reading
So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Despair Expectation Miracle Myself Willing
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
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

Allow Excitement Finding Human Place Religion Tree
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Born Country Heart Myself Try Unknown
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Blue People Wine
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

Herself Pride Time Virtue
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Companion Ourselves Perfection
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
Writing only leads to more writing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

One Liner Poet Writing
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Acceptance Gratitude Myself
If 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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Admit Literature Nourishment Sincere
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Believe Call Honor Suffering Urgent Wasted Time
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 COLETTE

Form Hold Image Lost Treasure
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Desperate Flower Image Lose Memories Ourselves

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