If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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Hope costs nothing.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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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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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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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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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.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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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.
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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