On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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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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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We only do well the things we like doing.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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