By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou 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.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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