I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIt is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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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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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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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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