I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTENo temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIt is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBe happy. It’s one way of being wise.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTELook for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI 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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA 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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEWriting only leads to more writing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIt takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBy 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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThere are no ordinary cats.
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