You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTENever touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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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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The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.
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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.
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