There 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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI 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.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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