In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE EarlyInsomniaRefugeStage
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. SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE Author
I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude. SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE Collection
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE
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. SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE Astonishment
At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak. SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE CloakWarm
