What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEThere are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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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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Hope costs nothing.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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A 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.
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