At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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