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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTETime spent with a cat is never wasted.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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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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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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