No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEHope costs nothing.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Hope costs nothing.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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You 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.
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