What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTENo one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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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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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.
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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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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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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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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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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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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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