I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBe happy. It’s one way of being wise.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEAs for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEJealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEWe only do well the things we like doing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTESincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI went to collect the few personal belongings which. I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThere are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTELook for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTENo one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou 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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