I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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I went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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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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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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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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