If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTESincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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