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 COLETTEThe true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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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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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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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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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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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