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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

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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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Form Hold Image Lost Treasure
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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Author Criticism Destroy Head Himself Judgement Poet Writing
Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Book Myself Necessary Presence Reading
There are no ordinary cats.
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Animal Cat Love One Liner Ordinary Pet
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Absence Finding Furnish Myself Ugly
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Betrayal Heart Broken Jealous
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 COLETTE

Cloak Comfortable Dirty Leadership Warm
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Life Myself Realize Wonderful
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
We only do well the things we like doing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Passionate Work
I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Appetite Myself Professional Training World
Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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Animal Cat One Liner Pet Time Wasted
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

Early Insomnia Refuge Stage Suffering Thinking
You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
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
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself

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