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.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEA pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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There are no ordinary cats.
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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.
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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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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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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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January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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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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I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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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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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
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