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 COLETTENever touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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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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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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I want nothing from love, in short, but love.
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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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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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There are no ordinary cats.
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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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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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