If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTEWe only do well the things we like doing.
More Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes
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Don’t cudgel your brains over my little problems.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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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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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
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A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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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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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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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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