A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEBe happy. It’s one way of being wise.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
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By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
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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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There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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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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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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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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The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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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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