It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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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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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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