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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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
There are no ordinary cats.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Animal Cat Love One Liner Ordinary Pet
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
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Age Forget Grave Old
When she raises her eyelids it’s as if she were taking off all her clothes.
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Clothes Herself Raise
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Happiness Oneself Wisdom
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Friendship Mechanism Polite Wisdom
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Character Honorable Kind Sound Time
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 COLETTE

Admit Literature Nourishment Sincere
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Evidence Friendship Love Man Myself True
Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Flower Modesty Sincere Spontaneous
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Himself Time Traveling True
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Bad Children Occasional Parents Place Polite
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Change Notice Yourself
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Acceptance Flattery Oneself Poet Silence
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

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