It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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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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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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