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 COLETTEIs 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.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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