It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEHope costs nothing.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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There are no ordinary cats.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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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.
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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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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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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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