You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThere are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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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.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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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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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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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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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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