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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Character Husband Marriage Mistake Virtue Wife
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Breathe Choice Planet Temptation
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Herself Pride Time Virtue
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Collection Man Terror Trade Weakness
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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Bad Children Occasional Parents Place Polite
I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Attachment Casually Myself Mystery People Search
Is suffering so very serious? …I’m referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It’s extremely painful… hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain… is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Age Kind Old Pain Respect Serious Suffering Woman Worth
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Give Up Herself Intelligence Man Right Thinking Woman
We only do well the things we like doing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Passionate Work
Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Brain Problem Yourself
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Companion Ourselves Perfection
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Despair Expectation Miracle Myself Willing
If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Himself Interesting Marriage
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Absence Shape Thinking Time True
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Book Myself Necessary Presence Reading
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Happiness Hurt Observation Pain Self Love Time Yourself

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