To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTENever touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Never touch a butterfly’s wing with your finger.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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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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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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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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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
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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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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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