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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Measurement Object Temptation Value
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.
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Breathe Choice Planet Temptation
If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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Acceptance Gratitude Myself
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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Change Notice Yourself
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Age Alone Bitter Freedom Poison Solitude Wall
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Artist Authentic Himself Life Ordinary Time Villain
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Anxiety Endurance New Year Ourselves Production Theatre
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 COLETTE

Character Honorable Kind Sound Time
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Age Kind Old Pain Respect Serious Suffering Woman Worth
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Day Distance Finding Myself Separate
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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Appetite Myself Professional Training World
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Form Hold Image Lost Treasure
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Companion Ourselves Perfection

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