At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBe happy. It’s one way of being wise.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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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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There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Writing only leads to more writing.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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