If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTELook for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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There 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.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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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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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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