The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI want nothing from love, in short, but love.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEAt sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI 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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThe true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIf he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEHope costs nothing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEI 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 COLETTEBooks, 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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEYou will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThat lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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 COLETTEThere are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEIt is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE