If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBy 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.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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Hope costs nothing.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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