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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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The 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.
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Herself Pride Time Virtue
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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Absence Humor Impossible Life
There 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.
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Illusion Moments Need Recovery Waste Young
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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Despair Expectation Miracle Myself Willing
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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Gratitude Kindness Prodigy Understand
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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Collection Myself Personal Solitude Travel Value
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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Character Husband Marriage Mistake Virtue Wife
At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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Age Grow Up Oneself Planning
That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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Joy Love Myself Voice
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Life Lost Love Myself Past Present Sadness Shame Time
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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Form Hold Image Lost Treasure
Hope costs nothing.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Companion Ourselves Perfection
Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Fingers Touch Yourself

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