No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThere 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.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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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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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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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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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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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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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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