I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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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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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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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 connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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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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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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