That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEWhat a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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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 believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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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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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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If I can’t have too many truffles, I’ll do without truffles.
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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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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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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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