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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBe happy. It’s one way of being wise.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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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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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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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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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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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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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