At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBe happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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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 love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Hope costs nothing.
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