Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTETo a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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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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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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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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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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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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