Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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By 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.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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As 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.
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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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Hope costs nothing.
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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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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