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.
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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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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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 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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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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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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