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 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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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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