A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIt takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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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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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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