Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI want nothing from love, in short, but love.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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