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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.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Collection Man Terror Trade Weakness
Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Book Myself Necessary Presence Reading
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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Life Lost Love Myself Past Present Sadness Shame Time
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Blue People Wine
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Humble Jealous Low Sight
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Childhood Contact Happiness Human Poor Preparation
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Joy Love Myself Voice
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Happiness Hurt Observation Pain Self Love Time Yourself
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Character Honorable Kind Sound Time
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Himself Interesting Marriage
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Admit Literature Nourishment Sincere

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